©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.We surveyed coral species richness on hard substrates within a ~1 km section of fringing reef neighbouring our study site (− 18° 12′ 20.52′′ S, 177° 40′ 14.16′′ W). Frequency data are derived from 36 cm × 36 cm quadrats placed at 15 randomly chosen intervals along 20 30 m transects that were non-overlapping and located haphazardly across the reef. We counted coral species richness in each quadrat, focusing exclusively on quadrats located on 100% hard substratum (113 quadrats total) to mirror our experimental plots.
These data was also funded through:
National Institutes of Health (2 U19 TW007401-10)
Teasley Endowment to the Georgia Institute of Technology
Hay, M., Clements, C. (2019) Frequency of coral species richness in 36 cm × 36 cm quadrats from field surveys on a fringing reef in Fiji. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 0) Version Date 2019-02-21 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/756580 [access date]
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