MCR LTER: Coral Reef Resilience: Live and Dead Pocillopora and Acropora Coral Colony Time Series from 2006 to 2011

These data describe the abundance, size structure, and morphologies of living and
dead corals belonging to the genera Pocillopora and Acropora on the forereef (depth
= 10 meters) in 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Data were derived from a randomly chosen
subset of photo quadrats associated with knb-lter-mcr.4. For each quadrat,
individual coral colonies were identified to genus, scored as living or dead, and
the total area of their footprint calculated. In addition, branch morphology was
scored on a scale from 1 to 3, with 1 representing very tight spacing, and 3
representing open spacing among adjacent branches. *** This is an offline dataset (LTER Network Type II). Data may be made available
through arrangement with the dataset owner. ***