National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in Puerto Rico from 2021-04-30 to 2021-12-24 (NCEI Accession 0272313)
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in Puerto Rico using two benthic surveys: the Benthic Assessment (BA) and the Coral Demographic method. Benthic Assessment provides benthic cover estimates for ecologically important cover types/groups (e.g., macroalgae, turf algae, …