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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Tags
- 1221
- algae) - rapid ecological assessments at all u.s. pacific islands
- american samoa
- amsam
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- coastal processes
- coral
- coral cover
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- long-term monitoring of benthos (coral
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- oes0402
- other invertebrates
- pacific ocean
- photic zone corals
- rapid ecological assessment (rea)
- south pacific
- swains atoll (11s171w0001)
- swain's island
- united states of america
- zoology