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Reef biodiversity monitoring at Lord Howe Island 2015
report
posted on 2023-05-25, 18:35 authored by Richard Stuart-SmithRichard Stuart-Smith, Graham EdgarGraham Edgar, Antonia CooperAntonia Cooper, Gudge, SA, Douglass, TThis report provides an overview of condition and trends in shallow reef biodiversity within the Lord Howe Island Marine Park (LHIMP) obtained from Reef Life Survey monitoring in 2012 and 2014. Data from 111 transects at 50 sites in 2012 and 106 transects at 47 sites in 2014 were analysed in combination with the monitoring data collected from 2006 to 2010. These include data from reef fish surveys that cover all reef species, size and biomass information, finer-scale targeted surveys of large mobile invertebrates and cryptic fishes closely associated with the substrate, and analysis of percentage cover of coral, macroalgae and other sessile organisms from photoquadrats of the substrate. These surveys form part of a globally-standardised methodology, and allow assessment of linkages between different taxonomic components and trophic groups surveyed at the same place and time.
History
Publication title
Report for the Lord Howe Island Marine Park and NSW Department of Primary IndustriesCommissioning body
Reef Life Survey Foundation IncorporatedPagination
52Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Reef Life Survey Foundation IncorporatedPlace of publication
Hobart, TasmaniaRights statement
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