The Vitareef data from each study site is available in either of two formats - as a comma separated value file or as a tab separated value text file.

Comma separated value files can be opened in Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet programs. The data entry format for these files, from left to right, is as follows:

• Date of study
• Name of diver
• Name of site
• Site number (a for shallow, b for deep)
• Time start
• Time stop
• Total time
• Coral genus
• Coral species (if species is not known, then 'spp' is entered here)
• Coral code (numerical code given to genus/species for analysis)
• Coral conditions - each cell of conditions data represents an individual coral colony. All conditions for that colony are entered together in a continuous stream within that cell eg. 121117 represents a colony suffering from three Vitareef conditions - 12, 11 and 17.
• Comment (if applicable)
• Ending 'E'

Tab separated value text files were created from the comma separated value files in order to break the data down into single lines of information per coral colony. Each Vitareef condition is represented by its own column with an on/off function.

The format for these data columns reads from left to right:

• Date of Study
• Name of Diver
• Name of Site
• Site Number
• Time Start
• Time Stop
• Total Time
• Coral Genus
• Coral Species
• Coral Code
• Condition code 2
• Condition code 3
• Condition code 4
• Condition code 5
• Condition code 6
• Condition code 7
• Condition code 8
• Condition code 9
• Condition code 10
• Condition code 11
• Condition code 12
• Condition code 13
• Condition code 14
• Condition code 15
• Condition code 16
• Condition code 17
• Condition code 18
• Condition code 19

To display the results of each study site the conditions have been grouped together to form the percentage bars shown.

Threat

Condition codes #15 and #17. Condition code #17 is scored to represent a colony which is decreasing in size. There are several conditions which, when present, cause the colony to either decrease in size or be unable to grow unrestricted, therefore we consider the colony to be under threat.

Condition code #17 must use with #12, #4, #11, #16, #7, #5, #10, #13 May be used with #19 if invertebrate overgrowth is active.

Overall Health

Condition codes #2 and #18, which represent respectively healthy colony and almost healthy colony.

Algae

Condition codes #4, #11 and #16 which represent respectively edge damage, overgrowth by filamentous algae and overgrowth by macroalgae.

Bleaching

Condition code #8

Sedimentation

Condition codes #6 and #12 which represent respectively sedimentation without and with tissue death.

Tissue damage

Condition codes #5 and #7 which represent respectively damage to tissue and skeleton, and damage to tissue only.