Dataset: LTR - Percent Cover Point Contact
Deployment: Osenberg_et_al_Moorea

Point Contact Surveys on the Long Term Vermetid Removal Reefs
Principal Investigator: 
Craig Osenberg (University of Georgia, UGA)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Thomas Frazer (University of Florida, UF)
International Collaborator: 
Jeffrey Shima (Victoria University of Wellington)
Contact: 
Craig Osenberg (University of Georgia, UGA)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Preliminary and in progress
Version: 
23 May 2016
Version Date: 
2016-05-23
Description

Reef composition was surveyed on all 192 reefs between years 2003-2005. The Focal Point Contact (Point Contact) method was used to determine the major substrate types that occupy each reef. Beginning in 2012, reefs 129-144 were used for a manipulative experiment; data beginning in 2012 for these reefs can be found in the project “Spatial patterns of coral-vermetid interactions: short-term effects and long-term consequences.” These data are meant to verify visual cover estimates at each reef (found in the dataset “Percent Visual Cover”).

Location: Moorea, French Polynesia (17.48 degrees S, 149.82 degrees W)

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