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Description:
Title:
Benthic habitats of Buck Island Reef National Monument
Author(s):
Costa, Bryan M.
Tormey, Sam
Battista, Timothy Adams
United States, National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (U.S.)
Corporate Name:
United States, National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (U.S.)
Dates of Publication:
2012
Abstract:
This report describes the creation and assessment of a shallow (0<=50 m), moderate (50 <=1,000 m) and deepwater (1,000 <=1,830 m) benthic habitat map for the Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM) north of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment's Biogeography Branch in partnership with the U.S. National park Service (NPS), was to provide spatially-explicit information describing the benthic habitat types and live coral cover present in the full extent of BIRNM's boundaries. The three resulting habitat maps, generated using a combination of semi-automated classification and visual interpretation techniques, represent the first digital maps of the moderate and deep-water areas inside the Monument"--Page ii.
Keywords:
Benthos
Coral reef ecology
Habitat
Habitat (Ecology)
Ocean bottom ecology
Place Keywords:
United States Virgin Islands
Buck Island Reef National Monument
Local Corporate Name:
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Technical Memorandum
Genre:
NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ; 142
Note:
This report describes the creation and assessment of a shallow (0<=50 m), moderate (50 <=1,000 m) and deepwater (1,000 <=1,830 m) benthic habitat map for the Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM) north of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment's Biogeography Branch in partnership with the U.S. National park Service (NPS), was to provide spatially-explicit information describing the benthic habitat types and live coral cover present in the full extent of BIRNM's boundaries. The three resulting habitat maps, generated using a combination of semi-automated classification and visual interpretation techniques, represent the first digital maps of the moderate and deep-water areas inside the Monument"--Page ii.
2012
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Library
Public Domain
1936
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