Coral reef ecosystem marine protected area monitoring in Fagamalo, American Samoa: benthic images collected during belt transect surveys in 2015
In 2010 the village of Fagamalo, Tutuila, American Samoa, designated a no-take Marine Protected Area that sees the protection of 2.25 square kilometers of ocean. Because little is known regarding the status of living marine communities in the area, and at...
Benthic Surveys in Vatia, American Samoa since 2015: benthic images collected during belt transect surveys in 2015
Jurisdictional managers have expressed concerns that nutrients from the village of Vatia, Tutuila, American Samoa, are having an adverse effect on the coral reef ecosystem in Vatia Bay. Excess nutrient loads promote increases in algal growth that can have...
CRED REA Fish Team Belt Transect Survey at Kauai, Main Hawaiian Islands, 2006
Belt transects along 3 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological
Assessments conducted at 7 sites at Kauai in the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) during July 27 - August 20 2006 in the
NOAA Hi'ialakai (HI0610) Reef Ass...