South Florida/Caribbean Network seagrass community monitoring: Standard operating procedures
South Florida/Caribbean Network. 2019. South Florida/Caribbean Network seagrass community monitoring: Standard operating procedures. National Park Service
Standard Operating Procedures for the associated protocol, including: 1. Sample Frame and Habitat Classification 2. Stratification 3. Creating a Seagrass Layer, Merging with Bathymetry Layer, and Assigning Strata 4. Sample Allocation 5. Field Methods 6. Training 7. Entering, Verifying and Performing a 100% QA/QC Check of Seagrass Data in the NPStoret Seagrass Database 8. Review, Certification and Export to Microsoft Excel, EQuIS and STORET 9. Data Summaries, Analysis, and Reporting 10. Revising the Protocol
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- South Florida/Caribbean Network
- Date of Issue
- 2019-03
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- BISC , BUIS , DRTO , SARI , SFCN , VIIS
- Keywords
- Caribbean, National Park Service, Seagrass, Seagrass Monitoring, Seagrass Monitoring Protocol, South Florida, South Florida/Caribbean Network, Standard Operating Procedures
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Marine Communities