Parameter: lesion_cover

Dataset: 
Mesocosm warming experiment seagrass metrics
Parameter: 
percent coverage
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 percent_cover
Short Description:
 percent coverage
Official Name:
 percent_cover
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

Percent cover is a method of determining relative abundance of a plant or sessile animal based on the amount of space they occupy within a plot of substrate. In this method, rather than counting the number of individuals, each species is assigned a percent cover based on a visual estimate of how much of the sample plot they occupy.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
lesion_cover
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
Float
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 
Numerical descriptor of the percent cover of lesions characteristic of wasting disease on the focal leaf; for lesions <10% numerical percent covers were converted from categorical estimates using the following method: 0 = 0; <1% = 0.5; <10% = 5; for lesions _10% cover numerical percent cover estimates were recorded during sampling