Dataset: coral percent cover
Deployment: Coral_Bleaching_Dives_Weil

Percent cover of coral and other sessile invertebrates at Caribbean reefs

Principal Investigator:

Ernesto F. Weil (University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, UPRM)

Contact:

Ernesto F. Weil (University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, UPRM)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Impact of the 2010 Caribbean Coral Bleaching Event: Assessing Changes in Coral Immune Function (Climate_Corals_Bleach_Disease)

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Version:

06 Sept 2013

Version Date:

2013-09-06

Data URL:

https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/456059/data

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Description

Percentages of live cover of corals, octocorals, zoanthids, hydrocorals and sponges in reefs studied in 2009 and 2011 at Curacao, Grand Cayman, Genada, and Puerto Rico.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

The point-intercept method was used along the same transects (N=15 per reef) to assess the percentage of live cover of corals, octocorals, zoanthids, hydrocorals and sponges in each habitat and reef.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
- Modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Added lat and lon from the metadata provided.
- Replaced abbreviated reef names with full names.

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1105143	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
location	Name of the country where the reefs are located.	text	site
reef	Name of the reef.	text	site
year	4-digit year when reefs were surveyed.	unitless	year
habitat	Description of the habitat: Deep, Intermediate (INT), or Shallow (SHA).	text	site_descrip
lat	Latitude of the reef.	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude of the reef.	decimal degrees	lon
transect	Transect identification number.	integer	transect
depth	Sampling depth.	meters	depth
rep	Replicate number.	integer	no_bcodmo_term
date	Date when the transect was surveyed.	mm/dd/YYYY	date
person	Initials of the scientific investigator.	text	investigator
group	Type of coral or invertebrate. See Supplemental File "group_codes.csv"	text	no_bcodmo_term
genera	Genus name or abbreviation.	text	taxon
species	Species name or abbreviation.	text	species
line_cover	Length of the portion of the transect line surveyed.	centimeters	no_bcodmo_term
cover_pcnt	Percent cover of the species in the "line_cover" area.	percent	no_bcodmo_term
intercept	Point intercept position along the transect.	centimeters	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: coral percent cover
Deployment: Coral_Bleaching_Dives_Weil

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Dataset: coral percent cover
Deployment: Coral_Bleaching_Dives_Weil