USGS South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network Crustaceans

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). This dataset describes the quantification of the invertebrate data (Crustaceans).南佛罗里达鱼类与无脊椎动物评估网络（South Florida Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network，缩写FIAN）是大沼泽地综合修复计划（Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan，缩写CERP）下属的监测项目，属于监测与评估计划（Monitoring and Assessment Plan，缩写MAP）的南部河口模块。FIAN旨在支撑MAP的四大总体目标：（1）为各项绩效指标确立CERP实施前的参考状态（包括其变异性）；（2）明确绩效指标的现状与变化趋势；（3）检测生态系统对CERP活动引发的压力因子变化所产生的非预期响应；（4）支持旨在加深生态系统认知、厘清因果关系及解读非预期结果的科学研究。 FIAN是一项针对南佛罗里达浅海水域内依附海草生境的鱼类与无脊椎动物（包括对虾科、长臂虾科虾类及蟹类）群落的区域尺度监测项目，其中粉红对虾（Farfantepenaeus duorarum）作为修复指示物种，为重点关注物种。FIAN为粉红对虾绩效指标提供数据支撑。粉红对虾作为一项生态系统监测属性，源自佛罗里达与比斯坎湾概念生态模型。 FIAN采用1平方米投掷式采样器作为采集动物群落的基础设备。每一份投掷式采样器采集的动物样本，均配套测定海草/藻类生境、水深、沉积物厚度、表层水温、盐度及浊度等指标。在19个监测点位的每个30格网格单元中，于旱季（4-5月）和雨季（9-10月）各采集一次随机布设的投掷式采样样本，每年共开展两次采样。 本数据集涵盖无脊椎动物数据（甲壳类）的定量测定结果。