Description
Shore-based belt transects were conducted at 1 to ~ 5 m depths at a total two (2) sites on the leeward coast (South Kohala district) of the Big Island (Hawaii Island) in the MHI during spring 2009. Twenty (20) randomly positioned transects were surveyed at each site in 2009; each transect was 50-m long x 2-m wide (100 m**2 area). Raw survey data consist of species-specific and size-specific (total length, TL, in cm) numerical counts of recruit (= 5 cm total length, TL) reef fishes encountered within transect boundaries.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS Excel File | XLS | Recruit_Reef_Fish_Belt_Transects_2009.xls | Open resource |
Tags
- 10367
- belt transect survey
- biology
- central pacific ocean
- coral reef
- coral reef conservation program
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- expanding fish nursery habitat information necessary for effectively siting no-take mpas
- expanding necessary information on juvenile nursery habitats
- fish
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- hawaii island
- hawaii island (19n155w0003)
- hawaii island (big island)
- main hawaiian islands
- marine biology
- marine ecosystem
- mhi
- noaa fisheries
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- reef fishes
- south kohala district
- united states of america