Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in Papua New Guinea

Surveys of reef sites in fished versus tabu (community closures) areas in both Madang and Manus Provinces, Papua New Guinea. Benthic cover of corals and other organisms were quantified along with the abundance diversity and size of reef associated fishes.

    Data Record Details
    Data record related to this publication Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in Papua New Guinea
    Data Publication title Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in Papua New Guinea
  • Description

    Surveys of reef sites in fished versus tabu (community closures) areas in both Madang and Manus Provinces, Papua New Guinea. Benthic cover of corals and other organisms were quantified along with the abundance diversity and size of reef associated fishes.

  • Other Descriptors
    • Descriptor

      These surveys were conducted in 2009 by Nick Graham and Fraser Januchowski-Hartley of James Cook University. At each site replicate 50m transects were surveyed at both 8m and 2m depth. Coral and other benthic cover were surveyed using point intercept methodology, while fish were surveyed using 50*5m belt transect UVC. The location tabu areas had been closed for varying lengths of time and were either fished for feasts annually or opened for longer periods of time. The data are being used to evaluate these management systems and to link to socio-economic data collected by Joshua Cinner at these and other sites.

    • Descriptor type Full
    • Descriptor
    • Descriptor type Full
  • Data type dataset
  • Keywords
    • coral reef ecology
    • periodic closures
    • reef fish assemblages
    • coral bleaching
    • ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
  • Funding source
  • Research grant(s)/Scheme name(s)
  • Research themes
    Tropical Ecosystems, Conservation and Climate Change
    FoR Codes (*)
    SEO Codes
    Specify spatial or temporal setting of the data
    Temporal (time) coverage
  • Start Date 2009/04/01
  • End Date 2009/05/01
  • Time Period
    Spatial (location) coverage
  • Locations
    • Madang and Manus Provinces, Papua New Guinea.
    Data Locations

    Type Location Notes
    Physical Location ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville Queensland 4811, Australia, Phone: 61 7 4781 4000, Fax: 61 7 4781 6722
    The Data Manager is: Nick Graham
    College or Centre
    Access conditions Restricted: no access
  • Alternative access conditions
  • Data record size
  • Related publications
      Name Januchowski-Hartley FA, Graham NAJ, Feary DA, Morove T, Cinner JE (2011) Fear of Fishers: Human Predation Explains Behavioral Changes in Coral Reef Fishes. PLoS ONE 6(8): e22761.
    • URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022761
    • Notes
  • Related websites
  • Related metadata (including standards, codebooks, vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies)
  • Related data
      Name
    • URL
    • Notes
  • Related services
      Name
    • URL
    • Notes
    Select or add a licence for the data
    The data will be licensed under CC BY-NC: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 AU
  • Other Licence
  • Statement of rights in data Once access to the dataset has been obtain, use of the dataset is governed by the CC-BY-NC AU licence.
  • Data owners
    Citation Graham, Nick; Cinner, Joshua (2012): Coral reef benthic and fish surveys in Papua New Guinea. James Cook University. https://research.jcu.edu.au/data/published/0e9bac288a60d03be82c1ec57668e524