CRED REA Coral Health and Disease Assessment at Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands, 2006
Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed at 50-cm intervals as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 13 sites at Palmyra Atoll in March, 2006 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HI06-04). Raw survey data included percent cover of benthic parameters, including live coral, dead coral, carbonate pavement, sand, coral rubble, fleshy macroalgae, crustose coralline algae, and other sessile invertebrates along the two transect lines. In addition, an area of 3-4m on either side of each transect was surveyed; within this area, each coral colony was inspected and every diseased/afflicted colony identified to the lowest taxonomic and type of affliction recorded.
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Tags
- coral cover
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- corals
- biosphere
- palmyra atoll (05n162w0001)
- oceans
- hi0604
- algae
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- numeric data sets
- biology
- earth science
- line islands
- equatorial islands
- vegetation
- crustose coralline algae
- coral diseases
- pria
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- usa
- central pacific ocean
- usa minor outlying islands
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp)
- coastal processes
- 1221
- zoology
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- rapid assessment studies
- country/territory