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

• 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

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...