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Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2018

Dates

Start Date
2016-06-18
End Date
2018-12-05

Citation

"Data citation - When used records should cite the following papers: South Florida Reef Visual Census; http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/samples/index. Study citation - Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M. E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem. Retrieve from http://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/fish_monitoring_protocol/"

Summary

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.

Contacts

Distributor :
Abby Benson
Processor :
Stephen K Formel

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dwc_floridakeysreefvisualcensus2018_emof_2023-01-23.csv
“DarwinCore:extmeasurementOrFact” 		108.44 MB text/csv
dwc_floridakeysreefvisualcensus2018_event_2023-01-23.csv
“DarwinCore:event” 		1.06 MB text/csv
dwc_floridakeysreefvisualcensus2018_occurrence_2023-01-23.csv
“DarwinCore:occurrence” 		212.21 MB text/csv
csv_row_skipper.R
“function for reading GCOOS data” 		771 Bytes text/x-rsrc
examine_event_occurrence_IDs.R
“comparison of GCOOS and SEFSC data” 		4.45 KB text/x-rsrc
process_data.R
“Standardize data to DwC” 		9.38 KB text/x-rsrc
reproducing_MS_data.R
“Review of GCOOS data” 		5.99 KB text/x-rsrc
update_SEFSC_tax_table.R
“Revision to taxonomic data table” 		1.14 KB text/x-rsrc

Purpose

The Southeast Fisheries Science Center, along with other governmental, academic, and private partners, has been conducting a visual survey of reef fish species in the Florida Keys since 1978. This survey has since been expanded to include the Dry Tortugas and Southeast Florida Region. To learn more about the history, sampling design, and statistical design of the survey, please read Smith et al. 2011 .

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This dataset includes the data from the 2016 - 2018 survey. The data was downloaded from "https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/?acton=index" and standardized to Darwin Core. Taxa that could not be identfied from the included taxonomic data were filtered out. Data includes water visibility and fish length measurements.

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  • floridakeysreefvisualcensus2018

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