Coral point count manual

Purpose of This Manual This manual describes how to install, configure, and troubleshoot your POINT I/O modules. The POINT I/O modules in this manual are DeviceNet ready. Each module can exist on the DeviceNet network as one of the following: • As an individual node † With an adapter (catalog number ADN or ADNX) as a single node. Coral reefs represent some of the densest and most varied ecosystems on Earth. Over the past 50 years the health of these reefs have been declining. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, scientists are locating the reefs that are in the most trouble.  · Coral point counts by taxa (including “unknown corals” as a group) were transformed to account for differing total point counts between surveys. Absolute transformed coral cover was calculated by dividing the amount of points attributed to a particular taxon by the total number of points in the survey and multiplying by

Coral Biodiversity Identification manual Coral Health 3 x 50m Point-intercept transects *includes counts of rubbish MacroINVERTebrates 3 x m (5m. intensive visual counts of reef fish, juvenile corals, crown-of-thorns starfish, coral-eating snails and coral disease and bleaching. The Inshore Marine Monitoring Program (MMP) is designed to detect changes in reef communities adjacent to the Wet Tropics, Burdekin, Mackay, Whitsunday and Fitzroy Natural Resource Management Regions. m A monitoring site is the area of coral reef selected for monitoring; m A sample is the area where you count the animals and plants e.g. along a transect or inside a quadrat. The sample areas selected for monitoring will depend upon the type of information needed and the type of things you want to count. You will need to use a number of separate.

Key words: benthic cover, coral, reef fish, monitoring, Grenada, In addition using Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe) v allowed a. long-term monitoring of coral reefs and provided funds for this manual and for Aerial photographs provide a good starting point for a general survey of. The benthic habitat images were quantitatively analyzed using Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe; Kohler and Gill, ) software from