Surveys of benthic organisms, reef fishes and manta tow surveys of Capricorn Bunker reefs in October 2015 (NESP TWQ 3.7, AIMS)

This dataset consists of summaries of benthic, fish and manta tow surveys conducted in the Capricorn-Bunker Region of the Great Barrier Reef in October 2015. It consists of three tables: 1. A table summarising percent cover of benthic organisms grouped into broad categories from photo transects collected during the monitoring surveys. 2. A table of average abundance for each reef fish species on the 5 transects in each of the three sites on each reef is presented for the eight reefs surveyed. 3. A table of the average reef wide coral cover, the mean reef-wide density of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS), Acanthaster planci and the mean reef-wide density of coral trout for each reef based on manta tow surveys. This dataset is an extract from part of the AIMS Long Term Monitoring database. Data, survey methods and additional publications from https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/1783f7ca-5abf-4b33-809f-ffe08c66703c