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    "title": "Assessing cryptic reef diversity of colonizing marine invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed at coral reef sites in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea from 2009-09-01 to 2012-09-12 (NCEI Accession 0237816)",
    "description": "Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) are used by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) to assess and monitor cryptic reef diversity across the Pacific.  Developed in collaboration with the Census of Marine Life (CoML) Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs), ARMS are designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract\/collect colonizing marine invertebrates. The key innovation of the ARMS method is biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner. Thus, the use of ARMS is a systematic, consistent, and comparable method for monitoring the marine cryptobiota community over time.\n\nThe data described here were collected by CREP from ARMS units moored at fixed climate survey sites located in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.  Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) from September 2009 to September 2012, and three ARMS units were deployed by SCUBA divers at each survey site.  The data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.\n\nEach ARMS unit, constructed in-house by CREP, consisted of 23 cm x 23 cm gray, type 1 PVC plates stacked in alternating series of 4 open and 4 obstructed layers and attached to a base plate of 35 cm x 45 cm, which was affixed to the reef. Upon recovery, each ARMS unit was encapsulated, brought to the surface, and disassembled and processed. Disassembled plates were photographed to document recruited sessile organisms and scraped clean and preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. Recruited motile organisms were sieved into 3 size fractions: 2 mm, 500 \u00b5m, and 100 \u00b5m. The 500 \u00b5m and 100 \u00b5m fractions were bulked and also preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. The 2 mm fraction was sorted into morphospecies. This dataset includes information on the species counted and identified in the 2 mm fraction.",
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    "modified": "2025-11-19T16:20:07.066Z",
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        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat",
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        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS)",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Baseline studies",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > In Situ Biological",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Brachyura",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Cryptobiota",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates > Biodiversity",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates > Census",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates > Macroinvertebrates",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS\/INVERTEBRATES",
        "VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS",
        "COUNTRY\/TERRITORY > Papua New Guinea > Kimbe Bay (05S151E0000)",
        "OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > New Guinea > Papua New Guinea > Kimbe Bay (05S151E0000)",
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