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Benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2012-03-13 to 2012-03-15 and from 2015-05-24 to 2015-06-03 (NCEI Accession 0162830)

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Photographs of the seafloor were collected during benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) in 2012 and 2015 along transects at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 15 m) habitats in the Philippines. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) over time. The imagery from 2015 has been quantitatively analyzed using image analysis software to derive an estimate of percent benthic cover (archived separately).

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0162830 BENTHIC COMMUNITIES biological data CORAL HABITAT - BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE SPECIES PHOTOQUADRAT IMAGES camera

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title Benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2012-03-13 to 2012-03-15 and from 2015-05-24 to 2015-06-03 (NCEI Accession 0162830)

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