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Coral Reef Monitoring for Management

This guide describes a system to monitor and evaluable coral reefs designed for local coastal communities who have no training in SCUBA diving. However, those who wish to use these reef monitoring methods must be good snorkelers. This guide outlines the importance of monitoring reefs, the steps to gather data, to analyze trends, and to choose solutions based on the observations. The simple methods described here are not unique or original. They were adapted from the other methods developed for volunteer SCUBA divers and reef scientists. This system was especially designed to collect data that are comparable to data collected by those other methods. It is hoped that the skills in monitoring and the knowledge from monitoring will help empower local communities to be more effective managers of the resource on which they depend.

This guide is intended for both development workers and members of local community monitoring teams. Notes for trainers have been incorporated in each chapter.

Author: 
Andre J. Uychiaoco, Stuart J. Green, Margarita T. dela Cruz, Paulyn A. Gaite, Hazel O. Arceo, Porfirio M. Alino, Alan T. White
File: 
PDF icon coral_reef_monitoring.pdf
Project Title: 
Coastal Resource Managment (CRM) - Natural Resources Management Program (NRMP) Phase II
Publication Type: 
Book