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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Coast Manage. 2019;47(5):429–452. doi: 10.1080/08920753.2019.1641039

Table 4.

Stony coral measurement means and standard errors (SE)

Stony Coral Variable Mean ± SE Median Range Units
Taxa Richness (TR) 7.1 ± 0.34 7 1 - 16 taxa 25 m−2 substrate
Density (Den) 2.3 ± 0.26 1.7 0.16 – 10.7 colonies m−2 substrate
Colony Surface Area (CSA)a 0.24 ± 0.05 0.12 0.03 – 2.31 m2
3D Total Coral Cover (TC)a 0.5 ± 0.09 0.21 0.01 – 3.88 m2 coral m−2 substrate
3D Live Coral Cover (LC)a 0.29 ± 0.05 0.15 0.05 – 1.83 m2 live coral m−2 substrate
a

Colony surface area and cover values (CSA, TC and LC) were calculated using 3D surface areas