Dataset: Octocorals, scleractinia, macroalgae surveys describing species abundance and distribution on St. John and St. Thomas, USVI in 2011 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project)

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.630404.1Version 1 (2016-01-06)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge)

Co-Principal Investigator: Howard Lasker (State University of New York at Buffalo)

Scientist: Georgios Tsounis (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019 (St. John LTREB)

Project: Collaborative research: Ecology and functional biology of octocoral communities (VI Octocorals)

Abstract

Octocorals, scleractinia, macroalgae surveys describing species abundance and distribution on St. John and St. Thomas, USVI in 2011 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project)

Cite Dataset

Photoquadrats recorded in 2011 on north and south shores of St. John and St. Thomas, USVI, were used to quantify octocoral and scleractinian abundance with generic resolution.

Data used in Edmunds et al., 2015

Original submitted excel file in data file section.

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Results
Edmunds, P. J., Tsounis, G., & Lasker, H. R. (2015). Differential distribution of octocorals and scleractinians around St. John and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Hydrobiologia, 767(1), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2555-z

Edmunds, P. J., Lasker, H., Tsounis, G. (2022) Octocorals, scleractinia, macroalgae surveys describing species abundance and distribution on St. John and St. Thomas, USVI in 2011 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2016-01-06 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.630404.1 [access date]

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