Reef-census data from Buck Island Reef

Description

In July of 2016, Florida Institute of Technology researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), conducted reef-census surveys at 54 sites around Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are divided across two reef sectors (North and South) and three reef habitats (fore reef, reef crest, and back reef). The surveys provided data on the percent coverage of corals and other benthic taxa, and abundance of bioeroding parrotfishes and urchins.

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6cb4d7dc-e86d-45b8-96f5-bbfef78d3a32.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P97YB2YF

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  • coelenterates
  • caribbean-islands
  • ecology
  • benthos
  • oceans
  • usgs-6cb4d7dc-e86d-45b8-96f5-bbfef78d3a32
  • buck-island-reef-national-monument
  • united-states-virgin-islands
  • saint-croix
  • virgin-islands-of-the-united-states
  • erosion
  • geoscientificinformation
  • reef-ecosystems
  • animal-and-plant-census
  • saint-croix-island
  • underwater-photography
  • buck-island

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