Description
Belt transects along 1 or 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 9 sites at Guam and 2 sites at Santa Rosa Bank in October, 2005 from the NOAA vessel Oscar Elton Sette (OES05-12). Raw survey data included species presence and relative abundance, colony counts and size classes, and determination of benthic cover using the line-intercept method. One meter on each side of the transect lines was included in the belt (for a total of 50m2 or 100m2 per site), depending on the number of transects surveyed.
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Tags
- 1221
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- coastal processes
- commonwealth of the northern mariana islands
- coral
- coral cover
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- guam
- guam (13n144e0000)
- mariana archipelago
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- oes0512
- pacific ocean
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- photic zone corals
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- united states of america
- western pacific ocean
- zoology