INSU Coral Ecosystem Monitoring Network
This webpage displays the follow-ups achieved by the CRIOBE as part of the INSU coral ecosystem monitoring network. . The downloadable metadata offered here describes the methods of scientific data collection as well as the types of the available data.
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Marine Protected Areas of Moorea (MPAs)
A follow-up is achieved on 8 MPAs around Moorea, from the shore up to 70m depth at the level of the reef slope. 117 stations are involved in the study in which 5 populations are described using the “Transect method”: corals, algae, fishes, molluscs and echinoderms.
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Temporal Population Organisation (ATPP)
Initiated in 1990 on the Tiahura coral reef of Moorea, the programme looks at five major under-water populations: corals, algae, fishes, molluscs and echinoderms. Its research objectives are to describe the populations’ inter-annual variability as well as to establish trials explaining the latter / this variability.
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Tiahura Series
In addition to the long-term variability of the Tiahura reef populations presented above as part of the ATPP programme, this study gives further details. This time the ecological database covers a longer time frame, from 1971 to nowadays (2009), and refers to the entirety of the geomorphological units of the Taihura reef. Once again different populations are taken into account: corals, algae, fishes, molluscs and echinoderms.
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Coral Recruitment
A programme processing the coral recruitment in French Polynesia enables, since 2000, to distinguish three states in the Scleratinians’ benthic life: the adults, juveniles and recruits. The study has been achieved around Moorea over 8 years for the recruits and over 7 years for the juveniles and adults.
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INSU Observatory – Polynesia Mana
Since 2002, environmental interdisciplinary research belongs to the INSU’s action plans, in relation with the CNRS departments. As part of this decision, various tools have been developed by the CRIOBE in order to measure the different physical and biochemical parameters.
The Polynesia Mana network, run by the CRIOBE, regroups French Polynesia and neighbouring little insular states or territories: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Pitcairn, Niue, Wallis and Futuna. In each of those territories a periodic follow-up of the coral and fish populations is achieved.
Download the metadata of the POLYNESIA MANA monitoring network …
