Surveys at twenty-one sites in American Samoa to check the status of the coral reef communities, 2002-03 (NCEI Accession 0000735)
Transects of the coral colonies at 21 sites in American Samoa were surveyed by Dr. Charles Birkeland during an underwater swim in March 2002. Data for each coral species include abundances and size distributions of the colonies. The living coral cover can be estimated from the size distribution data. Data were …