Datasets / CRED REA Coral Population Parameters at Maui, Main Hawaiian Islands, August 2005


CRED REA Coral Population Parameters at Maui, Main Hawaiian Islands, August 2005

Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Issued about 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Belt transects along 2 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 6 sites at Maui Island and 3 sites at Molokini Islet in the Main Hawaiian Islands in August, 2005 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HII05-05). Raw survey data included species presence and relative abundance, colony counts and size classes, and visual estimaion of percent cover. On each side of the transect lines, 0.5 m was included in the belt (for a total of 50m2 per site).