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AIMS Photo Transects - Lizard Island Coral Communities 1981 to 2007

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. 5 sites at between 2 and 12m depth were established in 1981 at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 30 km off the north Queensland coast. Images were taken at all sites on an annual basis, regularly from 1981 to 2007. Each site is represented by 30–36 1m2 images taken in a grid pattern, Specific years and image file names can be found in the Lizard File Index.xlsx attached below. The data from one of the 5 sites at Lizard Island was published by Wakeford et al. (2008), which included the application of a cellular automata model of CR Johns to investigate effects of inter-specific competitionMaintenance and Update Frequency: asNeededStatement: Methods: Each site is represented by 30–36 1m2 images taken in a grid pattern of 3 or 4 adjacent photo transects. Each transects was 8 – 10 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 2007, 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&rft.creator=Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) &rft.date=2024&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.464435; southlimit=-14.695487; eastlimit=145.464435; northlimit=-14.695487&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.464435; southlimit=-14.695487; eastlimit=145.464435; northlimit=-14.695487&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.454111; southlimit=-14.645607; eastlimit=145.454111; northlimit=-14.645607&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.454111; southlimit=-14.645607; eastlimit=145.454111; northlimit=-14.645607&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.453822; southlimit=-14.64612; eastlimit=145.453822; northlimit=-14.64612&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.453822; southlimit=-14.64612; eastlimit=145.453822; northlimit=-14.64612&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.454799; southlimit=-14.645314; eastlimit=145.454799; northlimit=-14.645314&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.454799; southlimit=-14.645314; eastlimit=145.454799; northlimit=-14.645314&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.464843; southlimit=-14.695996; eastlimit=145.464843; northlimit=-14.695996&rft.coverage=westlimit=145.464843; southlimit=-14.695996; eastlimit=145.464843; northlimit=-14.695996&rft_rights=Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/&rft_rights=Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided as is and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.&rft_rights=Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2021). AIMS Photo Transects - Lizard Island Coral Communities 1981 to 2007. https://apps.aims.gov.au/metadata/view/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26, accessed[date-of-access].&rft_subject=oceans&rft.type=dataset&rft.language=English Access the data
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Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.

Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2021). AIMS Photo Transects - Lizard Island Coral Communities 1981 to 2007. https://apps.aims.gov.au/metadata/view/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26, accessed[date-of-access]".

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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. 5 sites at between 2 and 12m depth were established in 1981 at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 30 km off the north Queensland coast. Images were taken at all sites on an annual basis, regularly from 1981 to 2007. Each site is represented by 30–36 1m2 images taken in a grid pattern, Specific years and image file names can be found in the Lizard File Index.xlsx attached below. The data from one of the 5 sites at Lizard Island was published by Wakeford et al. (2008), which included the application of a cellular automata model of CR Johns to investigate effects of inter-specific competition

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Methods: Each site is represented by 30–36 1m2 images taken in a grid pattern of 3 or 4 adjacent photo transects. Each transects was 8 – 10 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 2007, 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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Wilce, M. (AIMS)
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Done, T. Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
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Wakeford, M. (AIMS)
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Chin, A. (Volunteer, AIMS)
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Navin, K. (AIMS)
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Fisk, D (AIMS)
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Turak, E. (AIMS)
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DeVantier, L. (AIMS)
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Bennet, R. (AIMS)
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Osborne, K. (AIMS)

Modified: 17 10 2024

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AIMS Lizard Island Site 2 - 1981-2000 [zip folder, size: 295 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard2_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

AIMS Lizard Island Site 1 - 1981-2000 [zip folder, size: 371 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard1_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

AIMS Lizard Island Site 5 - 1981-2000 [zip folder, size: 305 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard5_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

AIMS Lizard Island Supplementary images sites 1, 2 and 4 [zip folder, size: 82 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard-supplementary-images_sites-1-2-4.zip

Lizard Island Coral Communities 1981-2007 image previews [pdf file size: 18 MB]

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/files/Lizard-Island-coral-communities-1981-2000.pdf

Lizard Island File Index for Hi Res images [xlsx file size: 11 KB]

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/files/Lizard File Index Hi Res.xlsx

Download AIMS Transects images Lizard Island Site 5 - Hi-Res images [zip folder size: 0.98 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard5_Photo-transects_1981-2000_Hi-Res.zip

AIMS Lizard Island Site 3 - 1981-2000 [zip folder, size: 243 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard3_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

Download AIMS Transects images Lizard Island Site 4 - Hi-Res images [zip folder size: 2.7 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard4_Photo-transects_1981-2007_Hi-Res.zip

Download AIMS Transects images Lizard Island Site 3 - Hi-Res images [zip folder size: 1.09 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard3_Photo-transects_1981-2000_Hi-Res.zip

AIMS Lizard Island Site 4 - 1981-2000 [zip folder, size: 325 MB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard4_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

Download AIMS Transects images Lizard Island Site 2 - Hi-Res images [zip folder size: 2.4 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard2_Photo-transects_1981-2007_Hi-Res.zip

Download AIMS Transects images Lizard Island Site 1 - Hi-Res images [zip folder size: 2.5 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/Lizard1_Photo-transects_1981-2007_Hi-Res.zip

Wakeford, M., Done, T.J. & Johnson, C.R. Decadal trends in a coral community and evidence of changed disturbance regime. Coral Reefs 27, 1–13 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-007-0284-0

doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-007-0284-0

Lizard File Index.xlsx

uri : https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/files/Lizard File Index.xlsx

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

Follow the Coral (zooniverse project link)

uri : https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/pteranodon01/follow-the-coral

AIMS Lizard Island Photo transects ALL SITES 1981-2000 [zip folder, size:1.6 GB]

uri : https://data.aims.gov.au/data-download/2f88a3b9-9f9c-4eb7-ae50-14f47d6b8b26/AIMS_Lizard_Is_ALL_Photo-transects_1981-2000.zip

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