66555
Line Point-Intercept (LPI) Survey Protocol for the Atlantic, U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico: 2016
Protocols 2016 Line Point Intercept Protocols
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Published / External
66550
NCRMP: Assessment of coral communities in the Florida Reef Tract from 2016-05-01 to 2016-12-15 (NCEI Accession 0169401)
Data Set
Completed
2016-05-19
2018
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 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 (Refer to Coral Demographic Survey Protocol for the Atlantic, U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico: 2016).
To describe protocols for Line Point-Intercept (LPI) Surveys Surveys used in 2016
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2018
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National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCEI-MD
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(301) 713-3277
2018
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0169401/2.2/data/0-data/NCRMP_Florida_2016_Benthics/NCRMP_Florida_2016_Benthics/Data_Documentation/Protocols/NCRMP_LinePointIntercept_Protocol_2016.pdf
2018
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National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCRMP_LinePointIntercept_Protocol_2016.pdf
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