National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Data provided in this dataset were collected around the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) as part of NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)-led missions in collaboration with partners at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southeast Fisheries Science Center, the National Park Service, USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources, University of the Virgin Islands, University of Miami, Nova Southeastern University, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Benthic data collection for the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) consists of two survey types: the Line Point-Intercept (LPI) method and the Coral Demographic method. The LPI method provides a measure of percent cover of biotic and abiotic components of the benthos in a stratified random sampling design in hardbottom and coral reef habitats. The coral demographics protocol provide more detailed and species-specific insight (‘signal magnitude’) for coral populations than is provided by percent cover.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (2018). National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/v5ww7fqk. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 2013-07-08 to Present |
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West: -65.14981
East: -64.43145
South: 17.63673
North: 18.4152
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Supplemental Information | Accessions that are part of the current collection: 0176081, 0215460, 0224205, and 0270849. The following two accessions, 0151728 and 0151730, were originally part of this collection and may have been cited using the collection's DOI. The data in these two packages were superseded by the accession 0224205 which represents the latest version of the data. |
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