Description
Shore-based belt transects were conducted at 8-13 m depths at 3 longshore sites on the leeward coast (North and South Kohala districts) of the Big Island (Hawaii Island) in the MHI during spring 2005. From 8-10 randomly positioned transects were surveyed at each site; each transect was 25-m long x 2-m wide (50 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) and larger (5-10 cm TL) juvenile reef fishes encountered within transect boundaries. The study was published in a peer-reviewed marine science journal in August 2007. The full citation is: "DeMartini EE, Anderson TW (2007) Habitat associations and aggregation of recruit fishes on Hawaiian coral reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science 81(1):139-152".
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS Excel File | XLS | RECRUIT_REEF_FISH_BELT_TRANSECTS_2005.xls | Open resource |
Tags
- 10367
- belt transect
- belt transect survey
- biology
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coral reef
- coral reef conservation program
- corals
- 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
- fish assemblages
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- hawaii island
- hawaii island (19n155w0003)
- hawaii island (big island)
- kohala coast (21n155w0001)
- linear transect
- main hawaiian islands
- marine biology
- marine ecosystem
- mhi
- noaa fisheries
- north and south kohala districts
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- reef fish census
- reef fishes
- reef monitoring and assessment
- united states of america
- zoology