Parks Victoria Standard Operating Procedure

Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 9Subtidal Reef Monitoring SOPMethod 2 - Invertebrates16. Counts for invertebrates are recorded as a series of stroke marks for individuals, orbracketed numbers for group/multiple counts. These are added up later during the dataentry phase;17. Sizes for invertebrates are recorded within each column and are not bracketed – the sizemeasurement is also used as an individual count marker. Sizes of 111 mm areunderlined to differentiate the record from three count strokes;18. Three (or more) consecutive rows are usually used for Haliotis size measurements (fortarget n = 36);19. Counts of unmeasurable Haliotis individuals are recorded as stroke marks and/ornumbers in brackets, on the same rows as the measurements;20. An ‘e’ (denoting estimate) is placed after Jasus size measurements that were notmeasured directly. F or M is also placed after the size, if determined;Method 3 - Macrophytes21. Algal points abundance (a one or two digit number) is written under the appropriatequadrat distance marked at the top of the form (100 m at the start of T1 to 10 m at theend of T2, 10 m at the start of T3 to 100 m at the end of T4);22. Care must be taken to ensure clear separation of the two quadrat abundances presentwithin each column;Method 4 - Macrocystis23. Macrocystis counts are written in the last row of the form and denoted in the speciescolumn as ‘Mac ang count’;24. Macrocystis counts (1-3 digit number) are written under the appropriate distance markedat the top of the form. For T1 and T2, the distance marker is for the start of each 10 x10 m section. For T3 and T4, the distance marker is for the end of each 10 x 10 msection;25. Care must be taken to ensure clear separation of the two abundances present withineach column;Method 5 – Quadrat Invertebrates.26. Invertebrate quadrat species are denoted with a ‘q’ to separate them from Method 2species;25