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AIMS Cross-Shelf Series Photo Transects - Pandora, Rib, John Brewer, Myrmidon Reefs Coral Communities from 1980 to 2005

Name: AIMS Cross-Shelf Series Photo Transects - Pandora, Rib, John Brewer, Myrmidon Reefs Coral Communities from 1980 to 2005
Published: 2024

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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With allied field studies, it was established that in the last two decades of the 20th Century, GBR coral communities exhibited substantial resilience (in terms of restoration of prior percent cover and composition) following disturbances such as floods, crown-of-thorns starfish and cyclone-generated waves. There is presently little basis for setting resilience targets for coral reefs, especially in relation to the great variety of environmental settings and reef-types within the Great Barrier Reef. This project will help scientists provide a much stronger evidence base for the setting of targets and evaluating contemporaneous changes compared to more benign years of late last century. A number of AIMS ecological studies in the 1980s focused on this series of reefs, distributed across the continental near AIMS headquarters, Townsville. There are three to six photo-transects per reef, and each photographed up to 19 years between 1980 and 2005. Access to the sites was extremely weather and tide dependent, which accounts for differences among the sites in their frequency of visitation. For illustrated examples of this series, see Introduction to the AIMS Cross Shelf Series, available from the links below. Pandora Reef is a 'turbid coastal reef' in waters that often gets stirred up and made muddy by south-east winds. Rib and John Brewer are 'mid-shelf' reefs where the water is rarely turbid. Myrmidon Reef (an 'outer-shelf reef') sits way out in clear waters, pounded by massive waves from the Coral Sea. In Done (1982), seventeen coral community types were distinguished and named after characteristic dominant species. The communities displayed patterns of distribution at two spatial scales - a between reef scale and a within reef scale (i.e. the zonation of communities into characteristic areas on individual reefs. The patterns were distinctive, despite the considerable overlaps in the species composition of the communities defined. However, some subsets of the seventeen communities may represent stages in a succession which takes place over a time scale of decades to centuries. The photo-transects described here were established to investigate this proposition in this area with a history of severe and aperiodic natural disturbances (viz. cyclones, Acanthaster outbreaks, and coral bleaching).Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeededStatement: Methods: Each photo-transect was 10 – 12 m long, and marked at each end and near the middle with 12 mm steel pegs. On each survey occasion, a tape measure was stretched between these pegs to guide the acquisition of a set of near vertical overlapping stereo-pairs of 35 mm colour slides. Each stereo-pair, taken at 1 m intervals and from a range of approximately 2 m using paired Nikonos cameras (models II–IV), with 28 mm lenses and a camera base (distance between lenses) of 300 mm, covered an area of about 1 m2. Photography was attempted in most years from 1981 to 2005, but turbid water and/or dangerous conditions on many occasions meant that useable photographs could not be obtained on all visits. All slides (Kodachrome 64) were scanned at three resolutions (approximately 300 Kb, 1.2 and 27 Mb per slide). 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Starting in the early 1980s, thirty-two permanent photographed sites were established by AIMS to learn about the dynamic behavior of coral communities in the full variety of reef-zones from sheltered nearshore reefs in turbid waters through to the slopes and surf zones of outer reefs, each of which has its own distinctive assemblage of corals. With allied field studies, it was established that in the last two decades of the 20th Century, GBR coral communities exhibited substantial resilience (in terms of restoration of prior percent cover and composition) following disturbances such as floods, crown-of-thorns starfish and cyclone-generated waves. There is presently little basis for setting resilience targets for coral reefs, especially in relation to the great variety of environmental settings and reef-types within the Great Barrier Reef. This project will help scientists provide a much stronger evidence base for the setting of targets and evaluating contemporaneous changes compared to more benign years of late last century. A number of AIMS ecological studies in the 1980s focused on this series of reefs, distributed across the continental near AIMS headquarters, Townsville. There are three to six photo-transects per reef, and each photographed up to 19 years between 1980 and 2005. Access to the sites was extremely weather and tide dependent, which accounts for differences among the sites in their frequency of visitation. For illustrated examples of this series, see Introduction to the AIMS Cross Shelf Series, available from the links below. Pandora Reef is a 'turbid coastal reef' in waters that often gets stirred up and made muddy by south-east winds. Rib and John Brewer are 'mid-shelf' reefs where the water is rarely turbid. Myrmidon Reef (an 'outer-shelf reef') sits way out in clear waters, pounded by massive waves from the Coral Sea. In Done (1982), seventeen coral community types were distinguished and named after characteristic dominant species. The communities displayed patterns of distribution at two spatial scales - a between reef scale and a within reef scale (i.e. the zonation of communities into characteristic areas on individual reefs. The patterns were distinctive, despite the considerable overlaps in the species composition of the communities defined. However, some subsets of the seventeen communities may represent stages in a succession which takes place over a time scale of decades to centuries. The photo-transects described here were established to investigate this proposition in this area with a history of severe and aperiodic natural disturbances (viz. cyclones, Acanthaster outbreaks, and coral bleaching).

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded

Statement: Methods: Each photo-transect was 10 – 12 m long, and marked at each end and near the middle with 12 mm steel pegs. On each survey occasion, a tape measure was stretched between these pegs to guide the acquisition of a set of near vertical overlapping stereo-pairs of 35 mm colour slides. Each stereo-pair, taken at 1 m intervals and from a range of approximately 2 m using paired Nikonos cameras (models II–IV), with 28 mm lenses and a camera base (distance between lenses) of 300 mm, covered an area of about 1 m2. Photography was attempted in most years from 1981 to 2005, but turbid water and/or dangerous conditions on many occasions meant that useable photographs could not be obtained on all visits. All slides (Kodachrome 64) were scanned at three resolutions (approximately 300 Kb, 1.2 and 27 Mb per slide). The images produced here have been cropped, enhanced and reduced to < 1Mb to facilitate their analysis in the Zooniverse citizen science project ‘Follow the Coral’ (2022). https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/pteranodon01/follow-the-coral

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Done, T. Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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Navin, K. (AIMS)

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Fisk, D. (AIMS)

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DeVantier, L. (AIMS)

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Turak, E. (AIMS)

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Wilce, M. (AIMS)

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Chin, A. (AIMS volunteer)

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Wakeford, M. (AIMS)

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Dennet, R. (AIMS)

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Osborne K. (AIMS)

Modified: 17 10 2024

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Download AIMS Transects images at Pandora (all sites, low-res images) [zip folder size: 914 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Pandora.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at John Brewer - A3T1 [zip folder size: 492 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_John_Brewer_A3T1_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Rib Reef (all sites, low-res images) [zip folder size: 813 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Rib.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon (all sites, low-res images) [zip folder size: 1.35 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Myrmidon.zip External Link

Done TJ (1992) Constancy and change in some Great Barrier Reef coral communities: 1980-1990. American Zoologist 32: 655-662

uri : https://www.jstor.org/stable/3883646 External Link

AIMS Cross Shelf Series File Index [csv file size: 11 KB]

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/files/AIMS Cross Shelf Series File Index.csv External Link

Done, T.J. Patterns in the distribution of coral communities across the central Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 1, 95–107 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00301691

doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00301691 DOI Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Rib Reef - SE 10 [zip folder size: 577 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Rib_SE-10_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Pandora - N3 [zip folder size: 257 MB]

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PDF file download: Done TJ (1997) Decadal changes in reef-building communities: implications for reef growth and monitoring programs. Proceedings of the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium. 1: 411 - 416

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/files/Done_1997_Decadal-changes-reef-building-communities_Proc8th_IntCoralReefSym.PDF External Link

PDF file download: Fisk DA, Done TJ (1985) Taxonomic and bathymetric patterns of bleaching. Proc 5th Int Coral Reef Congr, Tahiti 6: 149-154

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/files/Fisk_Done_1985_Taxonomic-and-bathymetric-patterns-of-bleaching_Proc5th-IntCoralReefCon.pdf External Link

Done TJ (1999) Coral community adaptability to environmental changes at scales of regions, reefs and reef zones. American Zoologist 39: 66-79.

uri : https://www.jstor.org/stable/3884227 External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Rib Reef - SE 18 [zip folder size: 496 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Rib_SE-18_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon - NE1 [zip folder size: 511 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Myrmidon_NE1_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at John Brewer - A1T1 [zip folder size: 544 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_John_Brewer_A1T1_Hi-Res.zip External Link

AIMS Cross Shelf Series File Index Hi Res images [xlsx file 25 KB]

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Download AIMS Transects images at Rib Reef - SE2 [zip folder size: 576 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Rib_SE-2_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Done, T., Turak, E., Wakeford, M. et al. Decadal changes in turbid-water coral communities at Pandora Reef: loss of resilience or too soon to tell?. Coral Reefs 26, 789–805 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-007-0265-3

doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-007-0265-3 DOI Link

Done, T.J., DeVantier, L.M., Turak, E. et al. Coral growth on three reefs: development of recovery benchmarks using a space for time approach. Coral Reefs 29, 815–833 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0637-y

doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0637-y DOI Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon - NE2 [zip folder size: 740 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Myrmidon_NE2_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon - NE3 [zip folder size: 671 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Myrmidon_NE3_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon - SE1 [zip folder size: 745 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/db6a82ca-dba0-4082-90db-88f9c8ee80d7/AIMS_Transects_Myrmidon_SE1_Hi-Res.zip External Link

Download AIMS Transects images at Myrmidon - SE2 [zip folder size: 429 MB]

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Follow the Coral (zooniverse project link)

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Introduction to the AIMS Cross Shelt Series [pdf size: 2.8 MB]

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Download AIMS Transects images at Pandora - NW4 [zip folder size: 539 MB]

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Download AIMS Transects images at John Brewer (all sites, low-res images) [zip folder size: 1.02 GB]

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