CRED REA Coral Population Parameters at Swain's Island, American Samoa, 2004
Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 8 sites at Swain's Island in American Samoa in February, 2004 from the NOAA vessel Oscar Elton Sette (OES04-02). Raw survey data included genus presence and relative abundance, colony counts and size classes, and visual estimation of percent cover. Either 0.5m or 1m on each side of the transect lines were included in the belt (for a total of 50m2 or 100m2 per site), depending on colony density.
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- coral cover
- united states of america
- swain's island
- corals
- biosphere
- biodiversity
- amsam
- oceans
- photic zone corals
- american samoa
- long-term monitoring of benthos (coral
- numeric data sets
- biology
- swains atoll (11s171w0001)
- rapid ecological assessment (rea)
- oes0402
- earth science
- other invertebrates
- algae) - rapid ecological assessments at all u.s. pacific islands
- south pacific
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- coral
- coastal processes
- 1221
- zoology
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- country/territory