Tides & Islands - Day 4 - Why the white tape

What we're doing here today is working on a transect line, which in our case is two 50 metre tapes rolled out You might be wondering, what does this do for us? Well it gives us a snapshot that we can use as we're going along identifying species, to see what species we have down on the line. As we go along, we take our counts, of what species we have, so we might have two of one species, three of another and all these add up over time as get along the transect line to give us a picture of what species are here. Working on the transect line, it gives us a good picture of species that occur, per unit area. Which you just can't sample if you're wondering willy-nilly around a reef. So over the next four years, we plan to sample approximately 120 more sites to get an idea of the speices abundance and general biodiversity of the Kimberley region as a whole. (footage of sampling activities)