GVI Mexico Coral Reef Monitoring
Lluvia Soto

Lluvia Soto

GVI working in partnership with Amigos de Sian Kaan (ASK), have been monitoring Mexico’s Caribbean reefs since 2003. Data are collected at Pez Maya (20.00222 degrees N, 87.28624 degrees W) and Punta Gruesa (19.00865 degrees N, 87.58977 degrees W) to support the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System project and provide information to the National Parks Commission (CONANP). These data are now being used by GVI and its partners to promote the management of the reserve’s resources in a more sustainable manner.

The objective of this monitoring program is the creation of a database that will help to assess the health of the Mexican-Caribbean reefs.

We dive regularly and all incidences of target species are recorded and the global positioning system (GPS) coordinates are known from our monitoring program.

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Amigos de Sian Kaan and Global Vision International. 2010. Results of ongoing monitoring along the Quintana Roo coast

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)
obs_date	Observed date
obs_time	times not recorded, field is a placeholder
latitude	Latitude of observation
longitude	Longitude of observation
sp_obs	Species observed
sp_tsn	Species ITIS TSN
obs_count	in some cases the average of the minimum and maximum estimate was used
year	Year of observation
species	Species observed
size	in meters unless otherwise noted
depth	in meters unless otherwise noted
location	study site