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Dataset: octocoral density dependence
Deployment: Edmunds_VINP

Density of adult and juvenile (and recruiting) octocorals on shallow reefs at multiple locations in St. John, US Virgin Islands
Principal Investigator: 
Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Howard Lasker (State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo)
Scientist: 
Dr Lorenzo Bramanti (California State University Northridge, CSUN)
Georgios Tsounis (California State University Northridge, CSUN)
Student: 
Dr Elizabeth Lenz (California State University Northridge, CSUN)
Ms Kristin Privitera-Johnson (California State University Northridge, CSUN)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2015-09-02
Version Date: 
2015-09-02
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/565068/data

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Description

To evaluate the possibility that density-associated effects modulate octocoral abundance on a Caribbean coral reef, we tested the hypothesis that the density of octocoral recruits (colonies <= 4 cm tall) and adult colonies are positively associated on shallow reefs (<=14 m depth) in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Both life stages were censused for density at 8-10 sites along 7 km of shore in 2013 and 2014, and a correlative approach was used to evaluate the extent to which the densities were associated using sites as replicates. (from Privitera-Johnson, K., et al., JEMBE, 2015)

Data used in Privitera-Johnson et al., 2015

Original submitted excel file in data file section.

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