Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed at 50-cm intervals as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 22 sites at Tutuila Island in February, 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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Tags
- 1221
- algae
- american samoa
- american samoa (14s170w0000)
- amsam
- biology
- biosphere
- coastal processes
- coral cover
- coral diseases
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- crustose coralline algae
- earth science
- hi0602
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- rapid assessment studies
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp)
- reef monitoring and assessment
- south pacific
- tutuila island (14s170w0016)
- united states of america
- usa
- vegetation
- zoology