Northern Mariana Islands Marine Monitoring Team Reef Flat Surveys
Description
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' (CNMI) interagency marine monitoring team conducts surveys on reef flat areas on the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota in an effort to assess change in benthic communities over time. The program encourages volunteer participation from government and public sector under the supervision of professional government biologists. The data collected include benthic cover and invertebrate abundance. Coral community composition was added to the surveys in 2009.
Resources
| Name |
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Description |
Link |
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53 |
reef_flat.xls |
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26922303/reef_flat.xls |
Tags
- macroinvertebrate
- western pacific ocean
- reef monitoring and assessment
- coral reef
- corals
- northern mariana islands
- biosphere
- rota island
- algae
- rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
- benthic cover
- cnmi
- numeric data sets
- biology
- tinian island reefs
- earth science
- reef flat
- seacucumber
- saipan island
- rota
- saipan
- benthos analysis
- ocean basin
- coral
- saipan island (15n145e0002)
- zoology
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- country/territory
- tinian
- tinian island (14n145e0005)