Data sets
Holothurian (sea-cucumber) survey
- Subject
- biological_organisms
- Contact
- Prof Andrew Price
- Contact email
- andrew.price@warwick.ac.uk
- Start year
- 2006
- End year
- 2010
- Data format
- Description
- Repeat surveys undertaken along 64 comparable 100 m 2 m transects during February 2010 revealed highest median abundance in the Great Chagos Bank, and also significant decline in abundance at Diego Garcia since 2006.A complete census of a large transect, 19 km 4 m, encircling Salomon atoll, revealed lower total holothurianabundance in 2010 (1661 individuals) than 2006 (2142 individuals).Dataset contains species level identifications.
- Keywords
- holothurians sea-cucumber census survey monitoring
- Notes
- Authors
- Evans L , Hawkins J , Rowlands N , Price Andrew .