Description
Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 8 sites around Swains Island in American Samoa from 16-18 March 2008 aboard the NOAA ship Hi'ialakai during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI0802. 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
- american samoa
- american samoa (14s170w0000)
- amsam
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- coastal processes
- coral cover
- coral reef
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- hi0802
- 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
- photic zone corals
- rapid ecological assessments (rea)
- reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp)
- south pacific
- swains atoll
- swains atoll (11s171w0001)
- swains island
- united states of america
- zoology