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Benthic and reef fish surveys from the Kingdom of Tonga in 2016-2018 (375 sites)

James Cook University
Smallhorn-West, Patrick ; Ceccarelli, Daniela ; Stone, Karen
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 Abstract [PANGAEA]: 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.
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
 
2 datasets are listed in this bundled data publication:

Smallhorn-West, PF; Stone, K; Ceccarelli, D (2020): Tonga Reef fish survey raw data 2016-2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917697. This dataset consists of a tab delimited file 'Smallhorn-West-etal_2020_raw.tab' (22.2 MB). The file can also be viewed in HTML format at the PANGAEA website (first 2000 rows)

Smallhorn-West, PF; Stone, K; Ceccarelli, D (2020): Tonga Reef survey data 2016-2018, link to xlsx files. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917680. This dataset consists of 'Tonga Reef Surveys Raw Data 2016-2018.xlsx' (18.5 MB) containing the raw reef fish data and 'Tonga Reef Surveys Transect Data 2016-2018.xlsx' (2.33 MB) containing the transect level values.

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" data-original-title="">This dataset was originally published on PANGAEA and should be cited as: Smallhorn-West, Patrick F; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Stone, Karen (2020): Benthic and reef fish surveys from the Kingdom of Tonga in 2016-2018 (375 sites). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917698

 

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies | belt transects | coral cover | coral reefs | ecological surveys | reef fish |

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