Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 10 sites at French Frigate Shoals in the NW Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) during 1 September - 4 October 2006 in the NOAA Hi'ialakai Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise (HI0611). Raw survey data included species presence and relative abundance, colony counts and size classes by genus, and determination of benthic cover using the line-intercept method. Depending on colony density, 0.5 or 1 m on each side of the transect lines was included in the belt (for a total of 25-100m2 per site).
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Tags
- 1221
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coastal processes
- coral cover
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- french frigate shoals (24n166w0001)
- hawaii
- hi0611
- honolulu
- marine ecosystem
- northwestern hawaiian islands
- numeric data sets
- nwhi
- 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
- united states of america
- zoology