[Coral-List] Percent cover to biomass

[Marah Newman]

Dear All,

I am trying to determine if there has been any work conducted in the past
that provides conversions from estimates of percent cover to living biomass
of coral tissue.  I am conducting surveys of corals (most likely using
point-intercept method) but in addition to coral cover estimates, I also
need biomass. I can do some estimates of surface area to account for the 3-d
structure of the reef, but I still need to figure out a way to get some sort
of g/m^2 estimate.  Does anyone know if work on this has ever been conducted
and where I can find it?

Thanks so much,

Marah Newman
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Marah Newman
Graduate Student Office, Box 0208
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla
CA 92093, USA