Dataset: bleaching transects 2019

Name: Percent cover of healthy and bleached coral in Pacific Panama using the transect method in 2019
Published: 2019-09-09
Keywords: Panama, coral bleaching, biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.776377.1

Spatial Extent: N:8.631 E:-79.028 S:7.403 W:-81.758

Temporal Extent: 2019-03 - 2019-06

Project:

Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Mesoscale Oceanography, and the Dynamics of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs (Coral Climate ETP)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Richard B. Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology, FIT)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr Lauren T. Toth (United States Geological Survey, USGS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2019-09-09

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Percent cover of healthy and bleached coral in Pacific Panama using the transect method in 2019

Abstract:

Percent cover of healthy and bleached coral in Pacific Panama using the transect method in 2019.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2019-09-09	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.776377.1	2019-09-12

Description

Percent cover of healthy and bleached coral in Pacific Panama using the transect method in 2019.

Methods & Sampling

Coral health was monitored using a transect technique by laying 25-meter transects along a depth contour in the reef at 3 sites within the Gulf of Chiriqui and 3 sites within the Gulf of Panama. Benthic composition below the tape was recorded every 25cm for the entire transect length. The process was repeated 5 more times for a total of 6 transects for each site. Any coral present was classified and the health was scored using a 1-3 scale rating, with 1 indicating a fully healthy colony, 3 indicating a bleached colony, and 2 indicating a pale colony that fell in-between 1 and 3.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions

Data Files

File
bleaching_2019.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.28 KB) MD5:22d6853221a31b88b36379005fb18e0f Primary data file for dataset ID 776377

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535007

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Gulf	P (Panama) and C (Chiriqui) Gulf	unitless	region
Site	experimental site	unitless	site
Latitude	latitude in decimal degrees north	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude in decimal degrees east	decimal degrees	lon
Time	season and year that the transect was taken	season year	season
Transect	transect number	unitless	transect
Healthy_P_damicornis	frequency of healthy Pocillopora damicornis identified in the transect; rated as 1 indicating no bleaching	unitless	percent_cover
Pale_P_damicornis	frequency of pale Pocillopora damicornis identified in the transect; rated as 2 indicating lower health	unitless	percent_cover
Bleached_P_damicornis	frequency of bleached Pocillopora damicornis identified in the transect; rated as 3 indicating bleached	unitless	percent_cover
Healthy_P_verricosa	frequency of healthy Pocillopora verricosa identified in the transect; rated as 1 indicating no bleaching	unitless	percent_cover
Pale_P_verricose	frequency of pale Pocillopora verricosa identified in the transect; rated as 2 indicating lower health	unitless	percent_cover
Bleached_P_verricosa	frequency of bleached Pocillopora verricosa identified in the transect; rated as 3 indicating bleached	unitless	percent_cover
Healthy_Psammocora_stellata	frequency of healthy colonies of the species identified in the transect; rated as 1 indicating no bleaching	unitless	percent_cover
Pale_P_stellata	frequency of pale colonies of the species identified in the transect; rated as 2 indicating lower health	unitless	percent_cover
Bleached_P_stellata	frequency of bleached colonies of the species identified in the transect; rated as 3 indicating bleached	unitless	percent_cover
COTS_damage	frequency of harm identified to the coral structure caused by crown of thorns	unitless	percent_cover
Standing_dead_coral_no_turf	frequency of identified dead coral colonies that did not have turf starfish (COTS)	unitless	percent_cover
Standing_dead_coral_with_turf	frequency of identified dead coral colonies that had turf algae colonizing them	unitless	percent_cover
Unconsolidated_rubble_with_turf	frequency of rubble on the ground that had turf algae growing on it	unitless	percent_cover
Unconsolidated_rubble_with_CCA	frequency of rubble on the ground that had crustose coralline algae (CCA) growing on it	unitless	percent_cover
Fleshy_algae	frequency of fleshy algae observed in the transect	unitless	percent_cover
CCA	frequency of crustose coralline algae (CCA) observed in the transect	unitless	percent_cover
Sand	frequency of sand observed in the transect	unitless	percent_cover
Healthy_Porites_lobata	the frequency of healthy colonies of the identified species in the transect; rated as 1 indicating good health	unitless	percent_cover
Total	the total number of observations in the transect	unitless	percent_cover