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 | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS Excel File | XLS | reef_flat.xls | Open resource |
Tags
- algae
- benthic cover
- benthos analysis
- biology
- biosphere
- cnmi
- coral
- coral reef
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- macroinvertebrate
- northern mariana islands
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- pacific ocean
- reef flat
- reef monitoring and assessment
- rota
- rota island
- rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
- saipan
- saipan island
- saipan island (15n145e0002)
- seacucumber
- tinian
- tinian island (14n145e0005)
- tinian island reefs
- western pacific ocean
- zoology