The South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (FIAN) is a monitoring project within the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). It is an element of the Southern Estuaries module of the Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP).The FIAN is designed to support the four broad objectives of MAP: (1) to establish a pre-CERP reference state, including variability, for each of the performance measures; (2) to determine the status and trends in the performance measures; (3) to detect unexpected responses of the ecosystem to changes in stressors resulting from CERP activities; and (4) to support scientific investigations designed to increase ecosystem understanding, cause-and-effect, and interpretation of unanticipated results.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; 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.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).
Attached files include:
Original data acquired by M. Cannister for processing and inclusion in OBIS-USA, includes three files of data that were merged together - FIAN_Fishdata_orig.zip
Original metadata record created by Heather Henkel for ALL of the FIAN datasets as a whole - South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (FIAN).xml
Original metadata document created by Michael Robblee - FIAN metadata, 8_31_2012.docx
Enrollment journal used for crosswalking original data to MBG terms - OBIS-USA Enrollment Journal SF FIAN Fish 20140626.doc
Final MBG version of the data in separated in to 15 spreadsheets for processing - USGS_SouthFlorida_FIAN_FishMBG_20140701.zip
R scripts used for processing the original data to MBG version - Robblee_FIAN_data_2005-2011_Fish_Rscripts.zip
Final CSDGM metadata record created by Michelle Chang - USGS_SouthFlorida_FIAN_Fish.xml
