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    "tag": 14860,
    "title": "Reef-census data from Buck Island Reef",
    "pubdate": "20220920",
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    "publish": null,
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/Buck_Island_Reef_Census_Metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "In July of 2016, Florida Institute of Technology researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), conducted reef-census surveys at 54 sites around Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are divided across two reef sectors (North and South) and three reef habitats (fore reef, reef crest, and back reef). The surveys provided data on the percent coverage of corals and other benthic taxa, and abundance of bioeroding parrotfishes and urchins.",
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        {
            "name": "Toth, Lauren T.",
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        {
            "name": "Whitcher, Elizabeth M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Aronson, Richard B.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kuffner, Ilsa B.",
            "role": "Author"
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            "code": "1353",
            "name": "animal and plant census",
            "scope": "Inventory of macroscopic animals and plants by observation in the field. Used to estimate population and distribution."
        },
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            "scope": "Animals that live on the bottom of water bodies."
        },
        {
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            "code": "177",
            "name": "coelenterates",
            "scope": "Freshwater and marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones, belonging to the phylum Coelenterata and living as sedentary polyps or free swimming medusae."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "scope": "Study of the relations between living plants and animals and their environment."
        },
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            "name": "erosion",
            "scope": "The process whereby materials of the earth's crust are loosened, dissolved, or worn away and simultaneously moved from one place to another."
        },
        {
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            "name": "reef ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities formed by the skeletons of calcareous seawater organisms, usually corals."
        },
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            "name": "underwater photography",
            "scope": "Photographs taken below the water surface, usually in marine, lacustrine, and estuarine environments.  Subjects are typically benthic organisms and sedimentary structures on the bottom."
        },
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            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
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            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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