Tonga Reef survey data 2016-2018, link to xlsx files

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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

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917680
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917698
Related Identifier References https://purl.org/spc/digilib/doc/iwyna
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12755
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.917680
Provenance
Creator Smallhorn-West, Patrick F ORCID logo; Stone, Karen; Ceccarelli, Daniela
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 10 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-175.300W, -21.300S, -173.900E, -18.600N); Tonga