CRED REA Coral Population Parameters at Niihau, Main Hawaiian Islands, 2005
Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 9 sites at Niihau in the Main Hawaiian Islands in July, 2005 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HII05-05). Raw survey data included species presence and relative abundance, colony counts and size classes, and visual estimation of percent cover. On each side of the transect lines, 0.5 m was included in the belt (for a total of 50m2 per site).
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- coral cover
- united states of america
- corals
- biosphere
- biodiversity
- oceans
- photic zone corals
- mhi
- pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci
- numeric data sets
- hawaii
- biology
- rapid ecological assessment (rea)
- kauai
- earth science
- niihau island (21n160w0001)
- hawaiian islands
- hii0505
- central pacific ocean
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- coral
- niihau island
- coastal processes
- 1221
- central pacific
- zoology
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- country/territory