Website

http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/index.php?project_url=assess_netwk

Region(s)

SE, SW

Summary

FIAN is a regional scale monitoring program of seagrass-associated fish and invertebrate (penaeid and caridean shrimp and crabs) communities present in shallow waters of South Florida estuaries; the pink shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum, as a restoration indicator, is a species of special interest. FIAN provides input to the pink shrimp performance measure. The pink shrimp emerged as an ecosystem attribute to be monitored from the Florida and Biscayne Bay conceptual ecological models.

Parameters

Fish/fauna and seagrass/algae species composition and abundance, water depth, sediment depth and surface temperature, salinity and turbidity

Notes

Application

Publications

Start

2005

End

2011

Frequency

Semiannual

Method

Braun Blanquet is the SAV method. Fish/Fauna uses a 1-m2 throw-trap is the basic gear used to sample fauna in FIAN. Associated with each throw-trap animal sample are measurements of seagrass/algae habitat, water depth, sediment depth and surface temperature, salinity and turbidity. Twice annually, a randomly located throw-trap sample is collected in each cell of a 30-cell grid at each of the 19 monitoring locations at the end of the dry season (April/May) and the wet season (September/October).

Discontinuity

Data Location

SAV Data: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/53a1b920e4b0403a44154544 Fish Data: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/53a1bcb3e4b0403a4415454f

Data Format

.CSV

Habitats

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Water Column Coral/Coral Reef

SEACAR Citation

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). (2011). South Florida Seagrass Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network. Updated 02/14/2024. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/965

Alternative Citation

indicates priority attributes