Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/Metadata/SDE_Current/Acropora_Locations_pnt.htm">For a full FGDC compliant metadata record, please click here. </a> The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have embarked upon a collaborative effort to produce an online tool to allow for the open dissemination of Acropora-related datasets. An ArcGIS geodatabase has been built with the purpose of effective and accurate depiction of benthic data related to Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis. The geodatabase has been populated with significant multi-agency data from federal, state, university and non-government organizations. These agencies include NOAA, National Park Service, FWC, University of Miami, Univeristy of North Carolina - Wilmington, National Coral Reef Institute and The Nature Conservancy. All datasets include Acropora presence/absence and latitudinal /longitudinal coordinates at the minimum. This project was funded by award NA1ONMF4720029 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Name: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) Locations
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Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
Description: The primary goal of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to measure the status and trends of these communities to assist managers in understanding, protecting, and restoring the living marine resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Data from the project will be used to determine (1) overall net increase or decrease in stony coral percent cover and stony coral species richness, (2) overall net change in measurable reef community parameters, (3) changes observed in individual reef communities with no overall change on a landscape scale (decreases in one location balanced by increases elsewhere) or changes that are linked to specific regions of the landscape. Each of these potential mechanisms of change will result in different spatial patterns of change. A Sanctuary-wide, rather than a single-location survey, is necessary to detect ecosystem change.
These data participage in a one (station) - to - many (sampling efforts) relationship with the following three (3) tables based upon the "StationID" fields: 1) CREMP Core Species Richness
2) CREMP Core Species Percent Cover
3) CREMP Group Percent Cover
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and the CREMP Team and Collaborators
Description: Each point in this GIS data set represents a single deployment event (either a uniquely located artificial reef or deployments of the same reef on different days). Division of Marine Fisheries Management maintains and updates the source database. This data set represents deployments through February 12, 2019.
Copyright Text: FWC Division of Marine Fisheries Management
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/wormreefs_eastcoastfl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents known locations of annelid worm reefs. It is not a comprehensive mapping effort. The Nature Conservancy created a worm reef shapefile, containing the locations of annelid worm reefs (Phragmaopoma lapidosa) on Florida'a east coast as identified from available literature and location information obtained from worm reef experts in Florida. FGDL - Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quad 3 Meter aerial images were used in some cases to identify sites from previous sources. FWRI staff added worm reefs from the Broward County benthic habitat mapping (2004). Sources Used by TNC include: Kirtley, D. and W. Tanner. 1968. Sabellariid Worms: Builders of a major reef type. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 73-38. McCarthy, D. 2004. Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce. Personal communication. Stauble, D. and D. McNeil. 1985. Coastal geology and the occurrence of beachrock: central Florida Atlantic coast. Field Guide for the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, part 1. 27 p.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute & The Nature Conservancy
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/salt_marsh_fl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents the saltwater marsh areas in Florida. The data are a compilation of available land use and land cover information mapped by Florida's water management districts. The most recent data available as of July 2012 are used; the photography dates are between 1999 and 2010.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/mangrove_fl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents mangroves in Florida. The data are reselected from land use and land cover data from Florida's water management districts.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/oysters_fl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents oyster coverage for available study areas in the state of Florida. Not all areas have been mapped, but this dataset represents the oyster data available to FWRI as of November 2011. Source dates vary and many studies are much older than the compilation date. See the Source Information section for more details.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/seagrass_fl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This polygon GIS data set represents a compilation of statewide seagrass data from various source agencies and scales. The data were mapped from sources ranging in date from 1987 to 2010. Not all data in this compilation are mapped from photography; some are the results of field measurements. See the "Sources" section for more information.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/coral_hardbottom_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents coral and other hard bottom type data available to FWRI as of February 2012. The extent and resolution of source data sets varies. This is not intended to be a comprehensive survey - data gaps do exist. Sliver polygons also exist due to differences in overlapping study areas, as well as some present in the source data sets.
Worm and oyster reefs are not included in this compilation. See separate data sets for worm and oyster reefs.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/tidal_flat_fl_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
Tidal flats are non-vegetated areas of sand or mud protected from wave action and composed primarily of mud transported by tidal channels.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/metadata/SDE_Current/UnifiedFloridaReefTract_poly.htm" target=_blank>For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
The Unified Florida Reef Tract Map (Unified Reef Map) provides a consistent geospatial framework for management, monitoring, and characterization of the Florida reef tract from Martin County to the Dry Tortugas. The Unified Reef Map integrates existing benthic habitat maps of Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami Counties, Biscayne National Park, Florida Bay, and the Florida Keys, including the Dry Tortugas. This map of the seafloor uses a Unified Classification (UC) system to provide a common and consistent picture of the entire area while retaining the original detailed information specific to different source maps. The UC contains five levels of seafloor classification detail providing flexibility in the scope of analysis. UC Level 0 is the coarsest classification level that provides a consistent view of the entire area. UC Level 4 retains full seafloor description details from source maps which are not necessarily consistent for all areas. Where mapping projects spatially overlap, data are edited to create a seamless and consistent transition. Existing seafloor classification values are also cross-walked to the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS).
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Description: The primary goal of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to measure the status and trends of these communities to assist managers in understanding, protecting, and restoring the living marine resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Data from the project will be used to determine (1) overall net increase or decrease in stony coral percent cover and stony coral species richness, (2) overall net change in measurable reef community parameters, (3) changes observed in individual reef communities with no overall change on a landscape scale (decreases in one location balanced by increases elsewhere) or changes that are linked to specific regions of the landscape. Each of these potential mechanisms of change will result in different spatial patterns of change. A Sanctuary-wide, rather than a single-location survey, is necessary to detect ecosystem change.
These data participage in a one (station) - to - many (sampling efforts) relationship with the Coral Reef Evaluation & Monitoring Project (CREMP) Locations dataset.
Description: The primary goal of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to measure the status and trends of these communities to assist managers in understanding, protecting, and restoring the living marine resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Data from the project will be used to determine (1) overall net increase or decrease in stony coral percent cover and stony coral species richness, (2) overall net change in measurable reef community parameters, (3) changes observed in individual reef communities with no overall change on a landscape scale (decreases in one location balanced by increases elsewhere) or changes that are linked to specific regions of the landscape. Each of these potential mechanisms of change will result in different spatial patterns of change. A Sanctuary-wide, rather than a single-location survey, is necessary to detect ecosystem change.
These data participage in a one (station) - to - many (sampling efforts) relationship with the Coral Reef Evaluation & Monitoring Project (CREMP) Locations dataset.
Description: The primary goal of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to measure the status and trends of these communities to assist managers in understanding, protecting, and restoring the living marine resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Data from the project will be used to determine (1) overall net increase or decrease in stony coral percent cover and stony coral species richness, (2) overall net change in measurable reef community parameters, (3) changes observed in individual reef communities with no overall change on a landscape scale (decreases in one location balanced by increases elsewhere) or changes that are linked to specific regions of the landscape. Each of these potential mechanisms of change will result in different spatial patterns of change. A Sanctuary-wide, rather than a single-location survey, is necessary to detect ecosystem change.
These data participage in a one (station) - to - many (sampling efforts) relationship with the Coral Reef Evaluation & Monitoring Project (CREMP) Locations dataset.