20230601 14232500 1.0 TRUE Zone Thirteen mutually exclusive zones can be identified from shore to shelf edge corresponding to typical insular shelf and coral reef geomorphology. These zones include: Land, Salt Pond, Shoreline Intertidal, Reef Flat, Lagoon, Back Reef, Reef Crest, Fore Reef, Bank/Shelf, Bank/Shelf Escarpment, Channel, Dredged, and Unknown. Zone refers only to each benthic community’s location and does not address substrate or biological cover types that are found within. NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/MSE/Biogeography Branch