National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2013-07-08 to 2013-07-19 and from 2015-06-08 to 2015-07-24

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）的圣克洛伊、圣托马斯和圣约翰珊瑚礁社区进行了评估，该计划采用了两种底栖调查方法：底栖评估（BA）和珊瑚种群学方法。底栖评估提供了对生态学上具有重要意义的底栖覆盖类型/群体的覆盖度估算（例如，大型藻类、草坪藻类、苔藓状珊瑚藻、珊瑚等）。