Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Decadal-scale changes in community structure from 1987 to 2011

These time series data sample percent cover of Scleractinian corals by genus measured from photo quadrats. Percent cover is given for each quadrat, each site, each year from 1987 to 2011. Counts of juvenile corals conducted in situ and small colonies less than 4 cm diameter are pooled from all sites...

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Main Authors: California State University Northridge, Edmunds, Peter
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: KNB Data Repository 2013
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
Time series
Ocean acidification
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5063/aa/knb-csun-usvi.10700
https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/AA/knb-csun-usvi.10700
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Summary:These time series data sample percent cover of Scleractinian corals by genus measured from photo quadrats. Percent cover is given for each quadrat, each site, each year from 1987 to 2011. Counts of juvenile corals conducted in situ and small colonies less than 4 cm diameter are pooled from all sites. Supplementary data include in situ seawater temperature daily mean from 1989 to 2011. These data were used to create the figures in Edmunds, P.J., 2013, Decadal-scale changes in the community structure of coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands, Marine ecology Progress Series. doi:10.3354/meps10424

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