USGS South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network- Braun Blanquet

The South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (FIAN) is a monitoring project within the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). It is an element of the Southern Estuaries module of the Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP).The FIAN is designed to support the four broad objectives of MAP: (1) to establish a pre-CERP reference state, including variability, for each of the performance measures; (2) to determine the status and trends in the performance measures; (3) to detect unexpected responses of the ecosystem to changes in stressors resulting from CERP activities; and (4) to support scientific investigations designed to increase ecosystem understanding, cause-and-effect, and interpretation of unanticipated results.FIAN is a regional scale monitoring program of seagrass-associated fish and invertebrate (penaeid and caridean shrimp and crabs) communities present in shallow waters of South Florida; the pink shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum, as a restoration indicator, is a species of special interest. FIAN provides input to the pink shrimp performance measure. The pink shrimp emerged as an ecosystem attribute to be monitored from the Florida and Biscayne Bay conceptual ecological models.A 1-m2 throw-trap is the basic gear used to sample fauna in FIAN. Associated with each throw-trap animal sample are measurements of seagrass/algae habitat, water depth, sediment depth and surface temperature, salinity and turbidity. Twice annually, a randomly located throw-trap sample is collected in each cell of a 30-cell grid at each of the 19 monitoring locations at the end of the dry season (April/May) and the wet season (September/October). Attached files include: Original data acquired by M. Cannister for processing and inclusion in OBIS-USA, includes two files of data that were merged together - FIAN_BBdata_orig.zip Original metadata record created by Heather Henkel for ALL of the FIAN datasets as a whole - South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (FIAN).xml Original metadata document created by Michael Robblee - FIAN metadata, 8_31_2012.docx Enrollment Journal used to crosswalk original data to MBG terms - OBIS-USA Enrollment Journal SF FIAN BraunBlanquet 20140618.doc Final MBG version of the data, broken up into 6 pieces due to size for processing and transfer - USGS_SouthFlorida_FIAN_BraunBlanquetMBG_20140701.zip R processing scripts used by M. Cannister to process the original files into the MBG version - Robblee_FIAN_data_2005-2011_Braun_Blanquet.zip Final CSDGM Metadat record created by Michelle Chang - USGS_SouthFlorida_FIAN_BraunBlanquet.xml