Coral reef ecosystem marine protected area monitoring in Fagamalo, American Samoa: benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected during belt transect surveys of coral demography from 2015-10-26 to 2015-11-13 (NCEI Accession 0169724)

Coral reef ecosystem marine protected area monitoring in Fagamalo, American Samoa: benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected during belt transect surveys of coral demography from 2015-10-26 to 2015-11-13 (NCEI Accession 0169724)

DataSet Animal(s) : Coral Reef
DataSet Category : Corals
DataSet Country : United States
DataSet Region : North America
DataSet Type : DataSet
DataSet Access : Public
DataSet URL : https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/coral-reef-ecosystem-marine-protected-area-monitoring-in-fagamalo-american-samoa-benthic-cover-

In 2010 the village of Fagamalo, Tutuila, American Samoa, designated a no-take Marine Protected Area that sees the protection of 2.25 square kilometers of ocean.

DataSet Agency : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce