Reef Life Survey: Linking volunteer divers, scientists and managers in marine research and conservation - WEBSITE

珊瑚礁生命调查是一个培训和协助熟练和忠诚的休闲潜水员网络的计划，以具有成本效益的方式评估大陆范围内的近海海洋环境状况。该计划使用SCUBA潜水员采用的标准化水下视觉普查方法来调查鱼类和无脊椎动物物种，并使用照片样方记录大型藻类和珊瑚覆盖-该记录指的是该计划的网站。<br /> <br /> 通过在全国范围内实现技术标准化和建立监测系统，该方案解决了目前与管理海洋环境有关的许多问题，包括关于海洋生物多样性分布和趋势的数据缺乏、零散和质量不一。<br /> <br /> 管理一个中央数据库，用于存储、分析和传播在全国收集的数据，并设有一个公众可访问的门户网站。该网站使决策者和公众，包括娱乐团体、科学家和工业界能够以有意义的形式获取所收集的关于澳大利亚海洋环境的信息。它也有信息和资源，为particpating潜水员和那些希望成为参与。<br /> <br /> 休闲潜水员生成的数据集将提供一个国家框架，用于监测近海环境的状况，并确定最受保护的威胁和地点。<br /> <br /> <br /> 此记录指向珊瑚礁生命调查的在线资源：<br /> <br /> http://www.reeflifesurvey.com/

Reef Life Survey is a program that trains and assists a network of skilled and committed recreational divers to cost-effectively assess the state of the inshore marine environment at the continental scale. The program uses standardised underwater visual census methods employed by SCUBA divers to survey fish and invertebrate species and to record macroalgal and coral cover using photo quadrats - this record refers to the website for this program.<br /> <br /> By standardising techniques and establishing a monitoring system on a nation-wide scale, the program addresses many of the current problems associated with managing the marine environment, including the paucity, patchiness and variable quality of data on the distribution of and trends to marine biodiversity. <br /> <br /> A central database is managed for the storage, analysis and dissemination of data collected nationally, with a publicly-accessible web-based portal. The website allows information collected on Australia's marine environment to be accessed in a meaningful form by policy-makers and the general public, including recreational groups, scientists and industry. It also has information and resources for particpating divers and those wishing to become involved.<br /> <br /> The dataset generated by recreational divers will provide a national framework for monitoring the state of the inshore environment and the identification of those threats and locations of greatest conservation concern.<br /> <br /> <br /> This record points to the online resource for Reef Life Survey:<br /> <br /> http://www.reeflifesurvey.com/