Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Recruitment Tiles

• Main Authors: California State University Northridge, Peter Edmunds
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2018
• Subjects: USVI; VINP; LTREB; CSUN; US Virgin Islands National Park; St. John Island; Caribbean; California State University Northridge; NSF; Scleractinia; Scleractinian Coral; Community; Demographics; Corals; Populations; Carbonate rocks; Coral Reefs; Fringing Reefs; Shallow water; Marine environments; Polyps (organisms); Ocean Acidification; Reef Resistance and Resilience; Population and Community Dynamics; White Point; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/292/1

In this study, coral recruitment was measured on a kilometer-wide scale on shallow (5–6 m depth) fringing reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands, with the objective of determining the extent to which variation in recruitment was affected by biophysical coupling involving temperature and flow. Coral re...