Dataset: Coral cover data

Name: Coral cover data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.
Published: 2018-05-17
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:18.32 E:-64.723 S:18.32 W:-64.723

Temporal Extent: 1992 - 2012

Project:

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

RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019 (RUI-LTREB)

Principal Investigator:

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Contact:

Kevin Gross (North Carolina State University, NCSU)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Hannah Ake (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2018-05-17

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Coral cover data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.

Abstract:

Coral cover data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.

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Description

Data published in Ecology paper entitled “Stability of Caribbean coral communities quantified by long-term monitoring and autoregression models.”

Methods & Sampling

Methodology can be found in paper (Gross & Edmunds 2015).

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

- Reformatted column names to comply with BCO-DMO Standards

Data Files

File
cover_data.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 4.71 KB) MD5:909be7aaf22fe39adbd91dcbd0831f08 Primary data file for dataset ID 736736

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Environmental Biology	DEB-0841441
NSF Division of Environmental Biology	DEB-1350146

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Edmunds_VINP		1987-01-01	Virgin Islands National Park	Peter J. Edmunds (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
year	Year sampled	unitless	year
site	Site sampled	unitless	site
coral	Average percent of coral cover	percent	percent_cover
algae	Average percent of macroalgal cover	percent	percent_cover
other	Average percent cover of other	percent	percent_cover

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Dataset: Coral cover data