Parameter: Visual_Bleaching

Dataset: 
Red Sea Gradient Visual Bleaching
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: 
Visual_Bleaching
Supplied Units: 
percent
Datatype: 
String
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

visual assessment of coral bleaching at the end of the experiments, with ramets classified in one of five categories: 100% pigmented, 80% pigmented, 60% pigmented, 40% pigmented, 20% pigmented, or 0% pigmented.