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

珊瑚礁生命调查是一项计划，旨在培训和协助熟练的、致力于休闲潜水员的网络，以经济高效地评估大陆范围内近岸海洋环境的状况。该项目使用标准的水下目视普查方法，潜水员使用该方法调查鱼类和无脊椎动物物种，并使用照片样本记录大型藻类和珊瑚的覆盖情况-该记录参考该项目的网站。<br/> <br/> 通过标准化技术和在全国范围内建立监测系统，该计划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、零散和质量可变。<br/> <br/> 管理一个中央数据库，用于存储、分析和传播全国收集的数据，并有一个可公开访问的网络门户。该网站允许政策制定者和公众，包括娱乐团体、科学家和工业界，以有意义的形式访问收集的关于澳大利亚海洋环境的信息。它还为参与潜水员和那些希望参与其中的人提供了信息和资源。<br/> <br/> 休闲潜水员产生的数据集将提供一个国家框架，用于监测近海环境的状况，并识别那些最受保护关注的威胁和地点。<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/