CREMP Core Species Richness Table

The primary goal of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to measure the status and trends of these communities to assist managers in understanding, protecting, and restoring the living marine resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Data from the project will be used to determine (1) overall net increase or decrease in stony coral percent cover and stony coral species richness, (2) overall net change in measurable reef community parameters, (3) changes observed in individual reef communities with no overall change on a landscape scale (decreases in one location balanced by increases elsewhere) or changes that are linked to specific regions of the landscape. Each of these potential mechanisms of change will result in different spatial patterns of change. A Sanctuary-wide, rather than a single-location survey, is necessary to detect ecosystem change. These data participate in a one (stationID) - to - many (samples) relationship with the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) Locations based upon the stationID fields. These data can be found here: http://geodata.myfwc.com/datasets/02659342308142349932ab101c1d8a6b_14