Publication Date:
2023-07-08
Description:
This data represents coral reef ecological surveys conducted in the Kingdom of Tonga from 2016-2018. 375 sites were surveyed across the Tongatapu, Ha'apai and Vava'u island groups by Patrick Smallhorn-West, Dr. Daniela Ceccarelli and Karen Stone. Data includes reef fish belt transects and benthic photoquadrats or point intercept data. In addition, the values of a range of socio-environmental predictor variables are also included in this data set. Two files are uploaded:
Tonga Reef Surveys Raw Data 2016-2018 contains the raw reef fish data.
Tonga Reef Surveys Transect Data 2016-2018 contains the transect level values.
All surveys were conducted on SCUBA. Metadata on depth, location, transect length, width etc. are included in the data files.
Socio-environmental spatial data is available at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.904800
Keywords:
belt transects; Coral cover; coral reefs; ecological surveys; File content; File format; File name; File size; MULT; Multiple investigations; Reef fish; South Pacific; Tonga; Tonga_islands; Uniform resource locator/link to file
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 10 data points
