Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Scleractinian corals

These data are evidence of the the long-term dynamics of shallow coral reefs along the south coast of St. John from as early as 1989. These data come from the long term site at 9 m depth known as Yawzi Point. These data are representative of the Video Transects (VT) starting in 1989 (see Edmunds and...

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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
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
Ocean acidification
Online Access:https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/302/1
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Summary:These data are evidence of the the long-term dynamics of shallow coral reefs along the south coast of St. John from as early as 1989. These data come from the long term site at 9 m depth known as Yawzi Point. These data are representative of the Video Transects (VT) starting in 1989 (see Edmunds and Wirman 1991, MEPS 78: 201-204). All images analyzed using 200 randoms dots placed at random on their surface and the substratum beneath each dot annotated (~371,800 decisions by Nov 2017). Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck in September 2017. Because of this, sampling was completed in July and November of 2017. Data are available upon request for 1989 (raw data lost), 1992, 1993, and 1994. These images were analyzed with a coarser resolution that is not consistent with the current format.

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