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Benthic Assessment Protocols for the Atlantic Region: U.S. Caribbean, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico: 2018
Protocols 2018 Benthic Assessments
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Published / External
66437
NCRMP: Assessment of coral communities in the Florida Reef Tract from 2018-06-05 to 2018-12-17 (NCEI Accession 0208322)
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Completed
2018-04-05
2020
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) provides a biennial ecological characterization at a broad spatial scale of general reef condition for reef fishes,corals and benthic habitat (i.e., fish species composition/density/size, benthic cover, and coral density/size/condition). Data collection occurs at stratified random sites where the sampling domain for each region (e.g., Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary [FGBNMS]) is partitioned by habitat type and depth, sub-regional location (e.g., along-shelf position) and management zone. NCRMP will provide broader geographic context to supplement local monitoring efforts and studies of tropical reef ecosystems. Line point-intercept (LPI) sampling, the main component of the Benthic Assessment protocols, provides benthic cover estimates for ecologically important cover types/groups (e.g., macroalgae, turf algae, crustose coralline algae, corals, sponges, sand/sediment, etc.). This method is complementary to the NCRMP Coral Demographics sampling method that collects detailed information on scleractinian corals, including density, size and condition (percent mortality and bleaching) measurements
To describe protocols for Benthic Assessment Surveys
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2020
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCEI-MD
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2020
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0151/0208322/1.1/data/0-data/NCRMP_Florida_2018_Benthics/NCRMP_Florida_2018_Benthics/Data_Documentation/Protocols/NCRMP_BenthicAssessment_Protocols_2018.pdf
2020
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCRMP_BenthicAssessment_Protocols_2018.pdf
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