CRED REA Coral Health and Disease Assessment at Ta'u Island, American Samoa 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 9 sites at Ta'u Island in March, 2006 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HI06-02). 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 each 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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- coral cover
- united states of america
- american samoa (14s170w0000)
- reef monitoring and assessment
- corals
- biosphere
- amsam
- oceans
- algae
- american samoa
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- numeric data sets
- ta'u island
- hi0602
- biology
- manu'a group
- earth science
- vegetation
- crustose coralline algae
- coral diseases
- ta'u (14s169w0015)
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- usa
- south pacific
- 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