description: This dataset contains reef surface descriptors of coral reef (rugosity, fractal dimension and height range) for >500 reef patches at Lizard Island and corresponding species abundance and riches data for a subset of patches.

webpage: https://github.com/jmadinlab/surface_geometry

paperDOIcitation: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.03.929521

datasetDOI_URL: https://github.com/jmadinlab/surface_geometry/blob/master/output/master_20200709.csv

contactName: Damaris Torres-Pulliza

contactEmail: dtorrespulliza@gmail.com

license: CC0

higherGeography: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

decimalLatitude: -14.699334

decimalLongitude: 145.448064

taxon: Scleractinia

eventDate: 2015-2019

taxaList:

usefulClasses: Reef complexity and species biodiversity