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

• 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

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