Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 11 sites around Kingman Reef in Pacific Remote Island Areas from 4-7 April 2008, aboard the NOAA ship Hi'ialakai during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI0803. 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, 1 m on each side of the transect lines was included in the belt (for a total of 25-50m2 per site).
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Tags
- 1221
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coastal processes
- coral cover
- coral reef
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- hi0803
- kingman reef
- kingman reef (06n162w0001)
- line islands
- marine ecosystem
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- pacific remote island areas
- photic zone corals
- pria
- rapid assessment studies
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp)
- reef monitoring and assessment
- united states of america
- usa minor outlying islands
- zoology