Dataset: percent cover PI

Name: Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the point intercept 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.747552.1

Spatial Extent: N:8.6312 E:-79.0283 S:7.4033 W:-81.759

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 point intercept method from 2016-2018

Abstract:

Percent cover of coral in pacific Panama using the point intercept 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.747552.1	2019-09-12

Description

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

Methods & Sampling

While quadrats were placed in areas of high cover to maximize our ability to detect changes through time, coral cover data also were collected from 25 m point-intercept transects whose placement was re-randomized during each visit. Six haphazardly-placed transects were run across the reef at each site, and the composition of the benthos was recorded every 25 cm (100 points per transect) in situ by divers. Any point over live coral was assigned a bleaching score by the diver from 1 to 5, as above. Coordinates are approximate for the point-intercept transects.

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

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percent_cover_pi.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 10.94 KB) MD5:9553a59ee06b8f7194a2f081857b41c7 Primary data file for dataset ID 747552

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Funding Sources

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

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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
Latitude	latitude in decimal degrees north	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude in decimal degrees east	decimal degrees	lon
Transect	transect identifier	unitless	transect
coralN	number of coal points identified	count	count
noncoralN	number of non-coral points identified; excluding points 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
TimeStep	Categorical description of when sampling took place.	unitless	time_sample
TotalPoints	number of points analyzed for coral cover	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
Site	name of the sampling site		site

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