Dataset: percent cover CPCE

Name: Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the coral point count method from 2016-2018
Published: 2018-10-05
Keywords: Panama, coral cover, coral health, biota, oceans

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DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.747525.1

Spatial Extent: N:8.63174097 E:-79.028169 S:7.40308698 W:-81.759072

Temporal Extent: 2016-10 - 2018-03

Project:

Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Mesoscale Oceanography, and the Dynamics of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs (Coral Climate ETP)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Richard B. Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology, FIT)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr James J. Leichter (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)

Dr Lauren T. Toth (United States Geological Survey, USGS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2018-10-05

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the coral point count method from 2016-2018

Abstract:

Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the coral point count method from 2016-2018.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2018-10-05	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.747525.1	2019-09-12

Description

Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the coral point count method.

Methods & Sampling

Permanent quadrats that were established during the first year of the project were revisited twice per year for two years, and photographed during each visit. Benthic cover estimates were derived from the photographs by randomly overlaying 50 points on each image in coral point count (CPCE), and classifying the benthic composition underneath. Any point over live coral was assigned a bleaching score from 1 to 5, with a 1 indicating fully pigmented and 5 indicating completely bleached. The average bleaching score for each quadrat was calculated from all points over live coral.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions

Data Files

File
percent_cover_cpce.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 22.13 KB) MD5:3245c0d8c583c66f2dcb82daa8c6e0c2 Primary data file for dataset ID 747525

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535007
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535203

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

Camera

Supplied Name: photographed

Supplied Description:

The corals were photographed and the buoyant weight was measured for the “initial” time.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Camera

Acronym: camera

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/

Generic Description:

All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Gulf	name of the region	unitless	region
Site	name of the site	unitless	site
Latitude	latitude in decimal degrees north	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude in decimal degrees east	decimal degrees	lon
GulfN	numerical gulf identifier	unitless	region
SiteN	numerical site identifier	unitless	site
Replicate	replicate	unitless	replicate
coralN	number of coal points identified	count	count
notcoralN	number of non-coral points identified; excluding points that fell on quadrat or were unidentifiable.	count	count
TotalMinusTape	otal number of points excluding those that fell on quadrat or were unidentifiable.	count	count
CC	percentrage coral cover	percent (%)	percent_cover
MeanHealth	average health score of coral points ranges from 1 to 5 with 1 indicating fully pigmented and 5 indicating completely bleached.	health score	sample_descrip
UIN	Unique Identifing Number	unitless	sample
Time	When the sampling took place.	unitless	time_sample
Block	Replicate number within each site.	unitless	replicate
TimeStep	Categorical description of when sampling took place.	unitless	time_sample

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