IMAS Metadata Catalogue
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global cryptobenthic fish abundance
The National Reef Monitoring Network brings together shallow reef surveys conducted around Australia into a centralised database. The IMOS National Reef Monitoring Network sub-Facility collates, cleans, stores and makes this data rapidly available from contributors including: Reef Life Survey, Parks Australia, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (Western Australia), Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (South Australia), Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales), Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service and Parks Victoria.
The data provided by the National Reef Monitoring Network contributes to establishing and supporting national marine baselines, and assisting with the management of Commonwealth and State marine reserves.
Reef Life Survey (RLS) and the Australian Temperate Reef Network (ATRC) aims to improve biodiversity conservation and the sustainable management of marine resources by coordinating surveys of rocky and coral reefs using scientific methods, with the ultimate goal to improve coastal stewardship. Our activities depend on the skills of marine scientists, experienced and motivated recreational SCUBA divers, partnerships with management agencies and university researchers, and active input from the ATRC partners and RLS Advisory Committee.
RLS and ATRC data are freely available to the public for non-profit purposes, so not only managers, but also groups such as local dive clubs or schools may use these data to look at changes over time in their own local reefs. By making data freely available and through public outputs, RLS and ATRC aims to raise broader community awareness of the status of Australia?s marine biodiversity and associated conservation issues.
This dataset contains records of cryptobenthic fishes collected by RLS and ATRC divers and partners along 50m transects on shallow rocky and coral reefs using standard methods. Abundance information is available for all species recorded within quantitative survey limits (50 x 1 m swathes either side of the transect line, each distinguished as a 'Block'), with divers searching the reef surface (including cracks) carefully for hidden fishes. These observations are recorded concurrently with the macroinvertebrate observations and together make up the 'Method 2' component of the surveys. For this method, typically one 'Block' is completed per 50 m transect for the program ATRC and 2 blocks are completed for RLS ? although exceptions to this rule exist.
This dataset supersedes the RLS specific "Reef Life Survey (RLS): Cryptic Fish" collection that was available at https://catalogue-rls.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=6a56db3f-d1b2-438d-98c6-bd7dd540a4d5 (provision of data was stopped in June 2021).
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- NRMN - Global cryptobenthic fish abundance
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-05-19T10:13:00
Contributor
Contributor
Contributor
Contributor
Contributor
Contributor
Contributor
Distributor
- Hours of service
- 9am to 5pm UTC+10: Monday to Friday
- Credit
- Reef Life Survey and Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration partners
- Credit
- This research used Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) infrastructure for database support and storage. IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Biota
- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 1992-03-10
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 50
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
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- Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean
- Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean
- Regional Seas | Coral Sea
- Global / Oceans | Atlantic Ocean
- Regional Seas | Tasman Sea
- Marine Features (Global) | Bay of Bengal
- Regional Seas | Timor Sea
- Regional Seas | Arafura Sea
- Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean
- Global / Oceans | World
- Regional Seas | Flores Sea
- Regional Seas | Banda Sea
- Regional Seas | Solomon Sea
- Regional Seas | Bismarck Sea
- Regional Seas | Red Sea
- Regional Seas | Gulf of Thailand
- Regional Seas | Mediterranean Sea
- AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
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- Continents | Antarctica
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The citation in a list of references is: "Reef Life Survey (RLS); Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS); Parks Victoria; Department of Primary Industries (DPI), New South Wales Government; Parks and Wildlife Tasmania; Department for Environment and Water (DEWNR), South Australia, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), [year-of-data-download], IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network - Global cryptobenthic fish abundance, [data-access-URL], accessed [date-of-access]."
- Other constraints
- Please also utilise and cite this paper when using this data: Graham J. Edgar, Antonia Cooper, Susan C. Baker, William Barker, Neville S. Barrett, Mikel A. Becerro, Amanda E. Bates, Danny Brock, Daniela M. Ceccarelli, Ella Clausius, Marlene Davey, Tom R. Davis, Paul B. Day, Andrew Green, Samuel R. Griffiths, Jamie Hicks, Ivan A. Hinojosa, Ben K. Jones, Stuart Kininmonth, Meryl F. Larkin, Natali Lazzari, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Scott D. Ling, Peter Mooney, Elizabeth Oh, Alejandro Perez-Matus, Jacqueline B. Pocklington, Rodrigo Riera, Jose A. Sanabria-Fernandez, Yanir Seroussi, Ian Shaw, Derek Shields, Joe Shields, Margo Smith, German A. Soler, Jemina Stuart-Smith, John Turnbull, Rick D. Stuart-Smith. Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey, Biological Conservation, Volume 252, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108855
- Other constraints
- Please also utilise and cite this paper when using this data: Edgar, G., & Barrett, N. (2012). An assessment of population responses of common inshore fishes and invertebrates following declaration of five Australian marine protected areas. Environmental Conservation, 39(3), 271-281. doi:10.1017/S0376892912000185
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Graham J. Edgar, Antonia Cooper, Susan C. Baker, William Barker, Neville S. Barrett, Mikel A. Becerro, Amanda E. Bates, Danny Brock, Daniela M. Ceccarelli, Ella Clausius, Marlene Davey, Tom R. Davis, Paul B. Day, Andrew Green, Samuel R. Griffiths, Jamie Hicks, Ivan A. Hinojosa, Ben K. Jones, Stuart Kininmonth, Meryl F. Larkin, Natali Lazzari, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Scott D. Ling, Peter Mooney, Elizabeth Oh, Alejandro Perez-Matus, Jacqueline B. Pocklington, Rodrigo Riera, Jose A. Sanabria-Fernandez, Yanir Seroussi, Ian Shaw, Derek Shields, Joe Shields, Margo Smith, German A. Soler, Jemina Stuart-Smith, John Turnbull, Rick D. Stuart-Smith. Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey, Biological Conservation, Volume 252, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108855 Edgar, G., & Barrett, N. (2012). An assessment of population responses of common inshore fishes and invertebrates following declaration of five Australian marine protected areas. Environmental Conservation, 39(3), 271-281. doi:10.1017/S0376892912000185
Content Information
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
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NRMN page on IMOS website
- OnLine resource
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View and download data though the AODN Portal
- OnLine resource
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Website of Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration (ATRC)
- OnLine resource
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Reef Life Survey Explorer
- OnLine resource
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Access to Edgar et. al. (2020) Biological Conservation paper
- OnLine resource
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Reef Life Survey Methods Manual
- OnLine resource
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Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration Methods Manual
- OnLine resource
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NRMN Database QA/QC Protocols Manual
- OnLine resource
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imos:ep_m2_cryptic_fish_public_map
Cryptic Fish
- OnLine resource
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ep_m2_cryptic_fish_public_data
This OGC WFS service returns filtered geographic information. The returned data is available in multiple formats including CSV.
- OnLine resource
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OGC WFS help documentation
Resource lineage
- Statement
- For details on the standardised survey procedures (specifically Method 2 (M2) in this case), please refer to the relevant Methods Manual (link provided in Distribution section)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- diver
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/9efa25cd-4da4-47b5-9385-45e3cbd11705
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distributor
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- IMOS dataset level record
- Metadata linkage
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https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9efa25cd-4da4-47b5-9385-45e3cbd11705
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-05-19T12:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-05-27T15:14:36
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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