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| Title: | Reef Status Protocol (RSP): A Prognostic Reef Survey Methodology, Rapid Yet Comprehensive. |
| Authors: | Markham, HL
Browne, NK |
| Keywords: | DIVING
Scientific Diving
biological assessment
coral reef
marine environment
Reef Status Protocol
floral
faunal
ecological data collection |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) |
| Citation: | NW Pollock and JM Godfrey (Eds.) The Diving for Science…2007, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), Twenty-sixth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, University of Miami, Miami, FL. |
| Abstract: | A comprehensive biological assessment of the marine environment to determine reef health has traditionally relied on access to extensive economic and material resources. Resources typically include expensive survey equipment, a multidisciplinary team of specialist scientists and an adequate time period over which a representative data set can be collated. The Reef Status Protocol (RSP) survey technique provides a rapid yet comprehensive and prognostic data set with minimal resource use from which management recommendations can be made with a high degree of confidence. A number of sites within a target area can be surveyed to a high standard over a short time period thus reducing the required levels of both economic and material resources. The floral and faunal composition of a site is assessed using standard biological parameters and noted in parallel with the environmental variables of the site. Low manpower is required for the technique, and surveyors can be of a varying skills base (highly skilled specialists to non-specialist volunteers), thus increasing the efficiency of ecological data collection. |
| Description: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences (http://www.aaus.org/) |
| URI: | http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/7006 |
| ISBN: | 0-9800423-1-3 |
| Appears in Collections: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences
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