Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Pacific Marine Resources Institute
Publication Year:
2010
Publication Place
?
Physical Description:
various pagings
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
37649
Legacy PEIN ID:
77659
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Data Collection
Storage
Handling
Visualization
Analyses
Micronesias Coral Reef Monitoring Programs
Protected areas - Oceania
Protected areas - Management
Marine resource
Marine resource management
Marine resources - Pacific - Oceania
Protected areas
Marine resources - Micronesia
Coral reef monitoring
Coral reef management
Abstract
Statistically-sound science is required to assess the status of regional and local management efforts ranging from community-based marine protected areas to expansive regional networks defined by the Micronesian Challenge. Despite having common goals of protecting their resources for future generations, jurisdictions throughout Micronesia strongly differ in their approach used to monitor coral reefs, and thus, in the information that is available for managers to act upon. This is, in part, due to unequal funding and capacity distributed throughout the region. As of 2009, monitoring throughout Micronesia ranged from reef-check surveys conducted by governmental and recreational divers in Kosrae, to seven-year programs supporting multiple trained biologists in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Palau. Accordingly the questions being answered, statistical power to detect change, and the precision of the data differ considerably (Houk and van Woesik, 2006; Houk 2009; Waddell and Clarke, 2008).
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Pacific Marine Resources Institute
Publication Year:
2010
Publication Place
?
Physical Description:
various pagings
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
37649
Legacy PEIN ID:
77659
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 07-Dec-2010
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022