Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Populations Dynamics: Population Projections

• Main Authors: California State University Northridge, Peter Edmunds
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2022
• 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; Population; Coral Reefs; Fringing Reefs; Shallow water; Marine environments; Polyps (organisms); Ocean Acidification; Reef Resistance and Resilience; Population and Community Dynamics; Orbicella annularis; annularis; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/684/1

In this study, size-based matrix models for the reef-building coral Orbicella annularis at 14-m depth on the Tektite reef in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, were used to: (1) explore the demography of changing coral cover over 25 yr, (2) test for spatial homogeneity in demographic properties through...