Seafloor vegetation map of man-made boulders reef by underwater photogrammetry: Suggestions for site selections in macroalgal bed creations
Table 2
Vegetation categorization criteria and scoresheet of the macroalgal vegetation. Seafloor vegetation types and vegetation scores were categorized based on the presence of each seaweed species as follows: Sargassum and U. pinnatifida community (score 6), Sargassum community (score 5), S. horneri community (score 4), U. pinnatifida community (score 3), coralline red algae community (score 2), C. sinuosa community (score 1), and bare rock (score 0). In the table, “+” indicates the species were present, “−” indicates absent, and “+/−” indicates that the species wase either present or absent.