Biscayne National Park Resource Management Inventory & Monitoring Program: Reef Habitat Classification 2000
Patterson M. 2000. Biscayne National Park Resource Management Inventory & Monitoring Program: Reef Habitat Classification 2000. Biscayne National Park Inventory & Monitoring
Biscayne National Park's coral reefs are one of the rare and beautiful areas that the park was created to protect and preserve. The park's Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M) has been tasked with tracking the changes happening within this ecosystem. The inventory effort has begun by first looking at the stony corals, the animals which provide the structure for this habitat that plays host to the thousands of other biological residents. The Resource Management division began collecting data about the park's coral reef resources in 1998 using underwater videography. Twenty-five meter long transects were videoed along the reef for archival records and analysis. In 1998 and 1999 eight sites were surveyed (5 offshore bank reefs and three patch reefs). These videos were reviewed, stony coral colonies were counted, and density was estimated. [...]
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Patterson, Matt
- Date of Issue
- 2000
- Units
- BISC
- Keywords
- Coral Reef, Density, Patch reef, stony coral, underwater videography