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Title: Using single video census to survey coral reef fish
Authors: Khairulnisa Redzwan
Keywords: Khairulnisa Redzwan
LP 19 FMSM 1 2007
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Abstract: Unlike the commonly practiced Underwater Visual Census (UVC), the potential of using video for reef fish assessment is still not widely acknowledged. A study was designed to analyse the optimal dive time required in a video census survey, to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of utilising transect strip for video survey, and to identify the appropriate techniques of video census for coral reef fish survey. When transect is applied, a strip instead of a line was created (50 m x 2 m framework). For without-transect method, video were captured in a random line. Detectability curves showed that the transect method requires more sample (four to five samples) to obtain the maximum number of species than the no-transect method (two to three samples). The total abundance of species observed with the no-transect method is substantially higher and it gave more precise species counts than the transect method. Both within-site comparisons are highly correlated (Spearman's rho = 0.866 and 0.825).
URI: http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10623
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