National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2017-06-12 to 2017-08-04 (NCEI Accession 0176081)

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using two benthic surveys: the Benthic Assessment (BA) and the Coral Demographic method. Benthic Assessment provides benthic cover estimates for ecologically important cover types/groups (e.g., macroalgae, turf algae, crustose coralline algae, cor...

国家珊瑚礁监测计划（NCRMP）对美国维尔京群岛（USVI）的圣克罗伊、圣托马斯和圣约翰地区的珊瑚礁群落进行了评估，该评估采用了两种底栖调查方法：底栖评估（BA）和珊瑚种群学方法。底栖评估针对生态学上具有重要意义的覆盖类型/群体（例如，大型海藻、草坪藻类、石珊瑚藻类、珊瑚等）提供了底栖覆盖度的估算。