SOP #09: Conducting Coral Settlement Sampling. Version 2.02. Pacific Island Network Benthic Marine Community Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
Brown EK. 2021. SOP #09: Conducting Coral Settlement Sampling. Version 2.02. Pacific Island Network Benthic Marine Community Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
This SOP describes collecting and photographing Coral Settlement Arrays (CSAs) to document the settlement of coral larvae at transect locations. This SOP assumes that the CSA parts have been previously assembled (see SOP #1 Before the Field Season) and that the appropriate settlement tile mounting pins and CSAs have been installed at the monitoring transects (see SOP #7 Selecting and Marking Subtidal Sampling Transect Locations).