Table 1 Mean (standard deviation) Years Before Present baselines among various respondent types.
From: Shifting baseline syndrome among coral reef scientists
How many years past (if any) would you use as the ecological baseline for the cover percentage for stony corals in the Florida Keys as a guide for setting restoration targets (on average throughout the keys, bank reef, and buttress zone at a depth of 10 m)? | ||
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M (SD) | N | |
With outlier* | 159 (826) | 52 |
Without outlier | 44 (18) | 51 |
Respondents younger than 60 years–without outlier | 44 (20) | 27 |
Respondents age 60 and older | 44 (17) | 24 |
Government experts–without outlier | 45 (26) | 23 |
Nongovernment experts | 44 (9) | 27 |
Respondents with less than 20 years of experience–without outlier | 44 (23) | 21 |
Respondents with more than 20 years of experience | 44 (15) | 30 |
Experts with less than 1500 dives in the Florida Keys–with outlier | 41 (10) | 28 |
Experts with more than 1500 dives in the Florida Keys | 48 (25) | 22 |