Comparing volunteer and professionally collected monitoring data from the rocky subtidal reefs of southern California, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3239-3257

  Gillett, David J ^a   Pondella II, Daniel J ^b   Freiwald, Jan ^c   Schiff, Kenneth C ^a   Caselle, Jennifer E ^d   Shuman, Craig ^c   Weisberg, Stephen B ^a  

^a Southern California Coastal Research Project   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Reef Check California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen based monitoring; Reef check california; Rocky reef; Underwater visual census

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CALIFORNIA; DATA QUALITY; FISH ABUNDANCE; FISH COMMUNITIES; FISH SPECIES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL HABITAT; REEF SURFACES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SELECTION BIAS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; VISUAL CENSUS; VOLUNTEER MONITORING;

ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; SURVEYS;

REEFS;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; KELP FOREST; REEF; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROCKY SHORE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVERTEBRATE; KELP; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862848979     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2185-5     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bight'08 Rocky Reef Committee. (2008). Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Maine Monitoring Survey (Bight'08), Rocky Reef Workplan (p. 27). Costa Mesa: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project.
2. Bond, A. B., Stephens, J. S., Jr., Pondella, D. J., II, Allen, M. J., & Helvey, M. (1999). A method for estimating marine habitat values based on fish guilds, with comparisons between sites in the Southern California Bight. Bulletin of Marine Science, 64(2), 219-242. (Pubitemid 34099195)
3. Clarke, K. R., & Warwick, R. M. (2001). Changes in marine communities: An approach to statistical analysis and interpretations (2nd ed.). Plymouth: Primer-E.
4. Conrad, C. C., & Hilchey, K. G. (2011). A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: Issues and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 176, 273-291.
5. Dawson, C. L., & Shuman, C. S. (2009). Reef check California monitoring protocol (p. 16): Reef Check California.
6. Delaney, D. G., Sperling, C. D., Adams, C. S., & Leung, B. (2008). Marine invasive species: Validation of citizen science and implications for national monitoring networks. Biological Invasions, 10(1), 117-128.
7. Fore, L. S., Paulsen, K., & O'laughlin, K. (2001). Assessing the performance of volunteers in monitoring streams. Freshwater Biology, 46, 109-123. (Pubitemid 32122655)
8. Foster-Smith, J., & Evans, S. M. (2003). The value of marine ecological data collected by volunteers. Biological Conservation, 113(2), 199-213. doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(02) 00373-7. (Pubitemid 36755572)
9. Halusky, J. G., William Seaman, J., & Strawbridge, E. W. (1994). Effectiveness of trained volunteer divers in scientific documentation of artificial aquatic habitats. Bulletin of Marine Science, 55, 939-959.
10. Leopold, M., Cakacaka, A., Meo, S., Sikolia, J., & Lecchini, D. (2009). Evaluation of the effectiveness of three underwater reef fish monitoring methods in Fiji. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18(13), 3367-3382. doi:10.1007/s10531-009-9646-y.
11. Lepczyk, C. A. (2005). Integrating published data and citizen science to describe bird diversity across a landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology, 42, 672-677. (Pubitemid 41710790)
12. Levrel, H., Fontaine, B., Henry, P. Y., Jiguet, F., Julliard, R., Kerbiriou, C., et al. (2010). Balancing state and volunteer investment in biodiversity monitoring for the implementation of CBD indicators: A French example. Ecological Economics, 69(7), 1580-1586. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon. 2010.03.001.
13. Littell, R. C., Stroup, W. W., & Freund, R. J. (2002). SAS for linear models (4th ed.). Cary: SAS.
14. Mumby, P. J., Harborne, A. R., Raines, P. S., & Ridley, J. M. (1995). A critical assessment of data derived from Coral Cay conservation volunteers. Bulletin of Marine Science, 56, 737-751. (Pubitemid 26447620)
15. National Directory of Volunteer Monitoring Program (2010). US EPA. URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/volmon.nsf/Home?openform Accessed 8/11/2010.
16. Noble, R. T., Weisberg, S. B., Leecaster, M. K., McGee, C. D., Ritter, K., Walker, K. O., et al. (2003). Comparison of beach bacterial water quality indicator measurement methods. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 81, 301-312. (Pubitemid 36192861)
17. Oakes, C. T., & Pondella, D. J., II. (2009). The value of a net-cage as a fish aggregating device in Southern California. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 40(1), 1-21.
18. Ordines, F., Moranta, J., Palmer, M., Lerycke, A., Suau, A., Morales-Nin, B., et al. (2005). Variations in a shallow rocky reef fish community at different spatial scales in the western Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 304, 221-223.
19. Pattengill-Semmens, C. V., & Semmens, B. X. (2003). Conservation and management applications of the reef volunteer fish monitoring program. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 81(1-3), 43-50. (Pubitemid 36192841)
20. Pauly, D., & Morgan, G. R. (1987). Length-Based Methods in Fisheries Research. ICLARM Conference Proceedings 13. Manila, Philippines and Safat, Kuwait: International Center For Living Aquatic Resources Management.
21. Pondella, D. J., II. (2009). The status of nearshore rocky reefs in Santa Monica Bay, for surveys completed 2007-2008 sampling seasons (p. 165). Los Angeles: Occidental College.
22. Schmeller, D. S., Henry, P. Y., Julliard, R., Gruber, B., Clobert, J., Dziock, F., et al. (2009). Advantages of volunteer-based biodiversity monitoring in Europe. Conservation Biology, 23(2), 307-316. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008. 01125.x.
23. Schroeter, S. C., Gutiérrez, N. L., Robinson, M., Hilborn, R., & Halmay, P. (2009). Moving from data poor to data rich: A case study of community-based data collection for the San Diego red sea urchin fishery. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 1, 230-243.
24. Sharpe, A., & Conrad, C. (2006). Community based ecological monitoring in Nova Scotia: Challenges and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 113(1-3), 395-409. doi:10.1007/s10661-005-9091-7.
25. Stokes, M. E., Davis, C. S., & Koch, G. G. (2002). Categorical data analysis using the SAS system (2nd ed.). Cary: SAS.
26. Tenera Environmental. (2006). Compilation and analysis of CIAP nearshore survey data. San Louis Obispo, CA.
27. Topping, D. T., Lowe, C. G., & Caselle, J. E. (2006). Site fidelity and seasonal movement patterns of adult California sheephead Semicossyphus pulcher (Labridae): an acoustic monitoring study. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 326, 257-267. (Pubitemid 46026141)