Nauru Benthic Habitat Data

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Nauru Coral Reef Data - Allen Coral Atlas

The six Allen Coral Atlas Global Benthic Habitat Map classes described below were developed by Roelfsema et al 2013* with input from other coral reef benthic classifications. Benthic classification for global scale reef mapping is still constrained by spatial resolution, quality and accessibility of biophysical earth observation data, with satellites used are unable to distinguish some of the key measures that ecologists prefer to assess reef health (e.g., cover of living coral, cover of dead coral, cover of bleached corals and functional forms of algae) but broad classes like Coral Habitat and Rubble can still be informative for characterizing the local ecology.