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Reliability and utility of citizen science reef monitoring data collected by Reef Check Australia, 2002-2015.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Done, Terence Roelfsema, Chris M. Harvey, Andrew Schuller, Laura Hill, Jocelyn K. Schläppy, Marie-Lise Lea, Alexandra Bauer-Civiello, Anne Loder, Jennifer |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Reef Check Australia (RCA) has collected data on benthic composition and cover at >70 sites along >1000km of Australia's Queensland coast from 2002 to 2015. This paper quantifies the accuracy, precision and power of RCA benthic composition data, to guide its application and interpretation. A simulation study established that the inherent accuracy of the Reef Check point sampling protocol is high (<±7% error absolute), in the range of estimates of benthic cover from 1% to 50%. A field study at three reef sites indicated that, despite minor observer- and deployment-related biases, the protocol does reliably document moderate ecological changes in coral communities. The error analyses were then used to guide the interpretation of inter-annual variability and long term trends at three study sites in RCA's major 2002-2015 data series for the Queensland coast. |
| Starting Page | 148 |
| Ending Page | 155 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 28162251 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 117 |
| Issue Number | 1-2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/files/2073388/MPB_D_16_01204R1_Resubmission_Jan_17.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.openchannels.org/sites/default/files/literature/extrapolating_cetacean_densities_to_quantitativelyassess_human_impacts_on_populations_in_the_high_seas.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.054 |
| Journal | Marine pollution bulletin |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
