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  • Raw data Reef photo quadrants of St.Eustatius. Raw photo material of the 2015 survey
    Raw photo material of the 2015 reef survey using the GCRMN method. The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
  • Raw data Reef photo quandrants of Bonaire and Curacao. Raw photo material of the 1973-2016 surveys
    To follow the health of the coral reefs of Bonaire and Curacao a number of locations on each island are photographed each year since 1973. At each...
  • Raw data Reef photo quadrants of St.Eustatius. Raw photo material of the 2016 survey
    Raw photo material of the 2016 reef survey using the GCRMN method. The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
  • Raw data Raw data of turtle nesting monitoring on Bonaire by STCB
    Raw data of sea turtle nesting monitoring on Bonaire, including nesting efforts, nest locations, species, number of eggs, number of hatchlings, etc....
  • Raw data Raw data of turtle in-water-catch monitoring on Bonaire by STCB
    Raw data of sea turtle in-water-catch monitoring on Bonaire, including locations, species, carapace size, diseases, parasites, etc. Please contact ...
  • Raw data Raw data of parrot roost counts on Bonaire by ECHO
    Raw data of parrot roost counts on Bonaire. Please contact ECHO for more information.
  • Raw data Raw data of Conch observations on Bonaire by STINAPA
    Raw data of Conch monitoring for the Conch restoration project on Lac, Bonaire, including sizes, flared lip, lip thickness, etc. Please contact ...
  • Raw data Raw data of flamingo observations on Bonaire by DROB
    Raw data of flamingo monitoring on Bonaire. Please contact DROB for more information.
  • Raw data Brown pelican counts on St.Maarten by Nature Foundation St.Maarten
    Raw data of brown pelican counts on St.Maarten. Counts from 2010-2012 differ in monitoring method from 2016-2019. The latter includes counts for...
  • Raw data Raw data of lion fish observations on St.Eustatius by STENAPA
    Raw data of lion fish observations counts on St.Eustatius. Please contact STENAPA for more information.
  • Raw data Raw data of red-billed tropicbirds on St.Eustatius by STENAPA
    Red-billed tropicbird peak attendance and nesting success on St.Eustatius.  Please contact Hannah Madden for more information.
  • Raw data Reef photo quandrants of Bonaire and Curacao. Raw analysis material of the 1973-2016 surveys
    To follow the health of the coral reefs of Bonaire and Curacao a number of locations on each island are photographed each year since 1973. At each...
  • Raw data Raw data of turtle, sharks and fish inwater observations by SeaSaba
    Observations by SeaSaba dive instructors which include turtles, sharks, rays, snappers, groupers and marine mammals. Observations are made during...
  • Raw data Raw data of shark observation St.Maarten by the Nature Foundation
    Raw data of shark observations by the Nature Foundation and St.Maarten dive schools (Dive Adventures, Dive Safaris, Scuba Fun, Ocean Explorers)....
  • Raw data Raw data of shark observations on Statia
    Raw data of shark observations by St.Eustatius Scubaqua dive school. Please contact Wageningen Marine Research for more information.
  • Raw data Raw data of tern observations by STINAPA
    Raw data of tern observations by STINAPA. The observations include species, habitat and eggs and hatching information, Please contact STINAPA for...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on St.Eustatius from 2009-2015
    Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on St.Eustatius by STENAPA. Observation include habitat, observer, plot, transect/point observation, species...
  • Raw data Raw data of turtle observations on St.Eustatius 2004-2016
    Raw data of turtle observations, both nesting and in-water surveys. Information includes: nest identification, species, weather, moonphase, size of...
  • Raw data Raw data of turtle nesting monitoring on St.Maarten by Nature Foundation
    Raw data of turtle nest observations, including: nest identification, species, false crawls, etc. Please contact Nature Foundation St.Maarten for...
  • Raw data Raw data of vegetation observations on Saba
    Raw data of vegetation observations. Information includes: species (family, genus), habitat,edibility, toxcicity, medicinality, etc. Please contact ...
  • Raw data Well coordinates for hydrological survey Bonaire
    Well coordinates for the hydrological study on Bonaire. See this report for more information.
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Bonaire
    Raw monitoring data on terrestrial bird abundance observations. A long list of species is recorded accompanied by date/time and location. The species...
  • Raw data Aerial photographs Bonaire
    Aerial photographs of Bonaire. The photographs are scanned from paper. Photographs are in their original obligue position and still need to be...
  • Raw data Bats Bonaire
    As pollinators of the typical dry forest cacti, bats are a keystone species. Dry tropical forests are the most threatened type of forest in the Dutch...
  • Raw data Raw data of fish biomass (AGGRA)
    Raw data of fish biomass based on the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment method (AGGRA) for the locations: calabas no dive reserve front porch...
  • Raw data Raw Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV), Saba bank
    Raw underwater videos 'Baited Remote Underwater Video' (BRUV). The video material is many Terabytes large. Please contact the DCBD administrator...
  • Raw data Raw photos of coral bleaching event, Bonaire 2016
    At the end of 2016 / beginning of 2017 a coral bleaching event was reported on Bonaire. Directly after the event quadrant photographs were taken to...
  • Raw data Nutrient monitoring data on Bonaire and Curacao, 2007
    Raw data of a comparative nutrient monitoring program that included seasonal sampling for nutrients (ammonium, nitrate, DIN, SRP, TDN, TDP),...
  • Raw data Raw data of seagrass observations
    Raw data of seagras monitoring on Lac, Bonaire.  At 49 locations 6 square meter quadrants are investigated. The coverage per seagrass species is...
  • Raw data Raw data of invertebrate monitoring at Lac Bay, Bonaire
    Raw Invertebrate monitoring data. During monitoring the species and the number of individuals of that species is counted at 66 different locations....
  • Raw data Raw data of native tree planting on Bonaire
    Around 20,000 trees are being planted in various locations on the island. Mostly indigenous trees will be planted, although several non-indigenous...
  • Raw data Raw photo and video material of the seabed of the Sababank
    Raw underwater towed video transects of the seabed of the Sababank. Originally made to estimate the queen conch densities these video's depict many...
  • Raw data Reef photo quadrants of St.Eustatius. Raw photo material of the 2017 survey
    Raw photo material of the 2017 reef survey using the GCRMN method. The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
  • Raw data Raw data of snake surveys on St.Eustatius
    Raw observation data of the Red bellied racer on St.Eustatius from 2017-2018, including: location, length, elevation and weather conditions....
  • Raw data Iguana sightings, St.Eustatius
    Locations (lat/lon) of sightings of Iguana recorded in: 2015, 191 sightings 2016, 89 sightings 2017, 114 sightings 2018, 70 sightings No dates or...
  • Raw data Raw fisheries monitoring data on St. Eustatius (2017)
    Raw data of fisheries monitoring activities and analysis.  Please read this report for the analysis and outcomes.      
  • Raw data Vegetation releves
    TurboVeg vegetation recordings stored in a SQLLite database (Hennekens and Schaminée, 2001) containing recordings from plot observations. The...
  • Raw data Raw fisheries data
    Raw data of landings of fisheries on Saba. The data include: triplogs, fishing area, catch, fishing method, species composition, whale sightings, etc...
  • Raw data Coral inventory Bonaire, 2014 and 2017
    Coral inventory
  • Raw data Coral inventory Bonaire, 2014 and 2017
      zone    DO = DROP-OFF at ~10m depth, LT= Lower Terrace at ~5m depth length transect in cm rugosity    measure...
  • Raw data Reef photo quadrants of Bonaire. Raw photo material of the 2019 survey
    Raw photo material of the 2019 reef survey using the GCRMN method. The 12 survey sites lie within the Bonaire National Marine Park, which surrounds...
  • Raw data Data from: Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success
    In this study, we experimentally tested how mimicking key emergent traits that locally suppress physical stress using biodegradable establishment...
  • Raw data Taxonomically annotated underwater hyperspectral and color images of coral reef transects from Curaçao
    This dataset contains underwater hyperspectral imagery that can be used by researchers in the domains of computer vision, machine learning, remote...
  • Raw data BEACH PROFILE SURVEY ON SIX BEACHES ON SINT EUSTATIUS
    Student Report & Data This report is about the beach profile survey on St. Eustatius. The objective of this study is to start up a beach profile...
  • Raw data Daily weather for Bonaire (1980-2009)
    Raw daily weather data for Bonaire as measured at Flamingo airport by KNMI. The tabular data include the following fields: day month year rad Tx Tn...
  • Raw data Selection of historical census data Netherlands Antilles (1930-2010)
    Census data from yearbooks of Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands Antilles. The data was manually taken over from scanned yearbooks and put into...
  • Raw data Mangrove Population of Lac Bay (Bonaire) 1961-1996
    Map of Mangrove Populations of Lac Bay   Erdmann, W., Scheffers, A. 2006. Mangrove Population of Lac (Bonaire) 1961 and 1996,  Universität Duisburg-...
  • Raw data Areal survey- Bait balls East Coast Bonaire
    Aerial survey by the DCNA recording data and taking photos of almost 30 bait balls. Species observed include: skipjack tuna, various seabirds,...
  • Raw data Household resilience to climate change vulnerabilities -a case study of Bonaire - RAW DATA SET
    Abstract Small Islands (SIs) often have a small capacity to resist or recover from the increasing impacts of climate change and, therefore,...
  • Raw data Receiver logbook template - harmonized shark data
    Please find attached a receivers logbook template  with explanation and recommendations in the email below, developed by DCNA's Shark Intern Estela...
  • Raw data Receivers logbook template- harmonized shark data (R script)
    R script Stela also attached the R script she used for the report. Please let her know if anyone wants to use it and needs her help, and she’ll go...
  • Raw data shark tagging dataset
    Dataset 2016-2022   Harmonized shark tagging dataset of different shark species around Saba and Sint Maarten.   This dataset includes variables such...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Curacao from 2018-2021
    Raw data of terrestrial bird monitoring and vegetation description on Curacao collected for the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) and Carmabi. ...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Curacao 2022
    Raw data of terrestrial bird monitoring  on Curacao collected for the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) and Carmabi. Methodology: ProAlas ...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Aruba 2022
    Raw data of terrestrial bird monitoring  on Aruba collected for the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) and Aruba National Park Foundation. ...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Bonaire 2019
    Raw data of terrestrial bird monitoring on Bonaire.  Methodology: DCNA’s Bird Monitoring Handbook: An Introductory Guide to Monitoring Birds (Delnevo...
  • Raw data Raw data of terrestrial bird observation on Saba 2019,2021
    Raw data of terrestrial bird monitoring  on Saba collected for the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA)  and Saba Conservation Foundation. ...

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