CRED REA Coral Health and Disease Assessment at Kauai, Main Hawaiian Islands, 2005
Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed at 50-cm intervals as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 12 sites at Kauai Island in the Main Hawaiian Islands in July, 2005 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HI05-05). Raw survey data included percent cover of benthic parameters, including live coral, carbonate pavement, sand, coral rubble, fleshy macroalgae, and crustose coralline algae. In addition, an area of 6x25 m along each transect was surveyed for prevalence of coral disease.
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Tags
- coral cover
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- corals
- biosphere
- oceans
- mhi
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- numeric data sets
- hawaii
- biology
- earth science
- hawaiian islands
- kauai island (22n159w0001)
- coral diseases
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- usa
- central pacific ocean
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- main hawaiian islands
- reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp)
- coastal processes
- 1221
- zoology
- coral reefs
- hi0505
- coris_metadata
- kauai island
- pacific ocean
- rapid assessment studies
- country/territory