Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Physical Measurements

These data have been utilized for several publications analyzing different aspects of seawater temperature, including Edmunds: Royal Society 2006, Green et al: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2010, Green and Edmunds: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2011, and Edm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: California State University Northridge, Peter Edmunds
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2019
Subjects:
USVI
VINP
LTREB
CSUN
US Virgin Islands National Park
St. John Island
Caribbean
California State University Northridge
NSF
Scleractinia
Scleractinian Coral
Community
Corals
Populations
Temperature
Coral Reefs
Marine environments
Polyps (organisms)
Sea water
Water temperature
Temperature effects
Ocean temperature
Ocean Acidification
Reef Resistance and Resilience
Population and Community Dynamics
Ocean acidification
Online Access:https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/296/1
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Summary:These data have been utilized for several publications analyzing different aspects of seawater temperature, including Edmunds: Royal Society 2006, Green et al: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2010, Green and Edmunds: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2011, and Edmunds: Marine Ecology Project Series 2013. Temperatures were averaged by day and month and used to calculate annual mean and range using monthly mean temperatures. Daily temperatures were used to categorize days as hot (> 29.3°C) or cold (≤ 26.0°C), with hot days exceeding the coral bleaching threshold for St. John (http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite), and ‘cold days’ less than or equal to the lower 12th percentile of daily seawater temperatures in Great Lameshur Bay between 1989-2005 (Edmunds 2006).This dataset cotains data annually updated data ongoing since July 1999.

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