| Continuous classes |
If cover > = 90%, the point was considered as ‘pure’; the remainingcover types were omitted and the class name received a prefix“Continuous” |
Component 1 (most dominant) is limestone pavement with 95% cover, component 2 (second most dominant) is hard coral, with 5%, resulting in the label “Continuous limestone pavement” label and component 2 input omitted |
| Mixed classes with single dominant category |
If the dominant type was biotic and cover was between 50–90% andthe difference between the highest and second highest cover> = 30%, the remaining cover types were incorporated into thename. The name was derived from the dominant componentwith the prefix “Dominant” |
Component 1 is limestone pavement with 70% cover, component 2 is hard coral with 25% cover, resulting in the label “Dominant limestone pavement” label and the second label of hard coral for component 2 |
| Mixed classes with equal cover |
If the (Cover 1– Cover 2) < = 20% they were considered equal;and each received the prefix “equal” if the sum of the equalpercentages > = 90% |
Component 1 is limestone pavement with 50% cover, component 2 is hard coral with 45% cover, therefore (Cover1-Cover2< = 20% and component 1 was assigned a label “equal limestone pavement” and component 2 received label “equal hard coral” |
| Mixed classes that donot fall into the abovecategories |
Mixed classes that did not fit into the above categories remainedin the order they were in and receive the prefix “1”, “2”, “3”, etc.depending on their percentage value |
Component 1 is limestone pavement with 60% cover; component 2 is hard coral with 35% cover, component 3 is sand with 5% cover, therefore labels were in that order: “1-limestone pavement”, “2-hard coral” and “3-sand” |
