Dataset: Juvenile Porites along transects over multiple years

Name: Juvenile Porites along transects in St. John, US Virigin Islands between 1994 and 2020
Published: 2021-06-23
Keywords: scleractinia, juvenile, Porites, reef, Caribbean, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.854447.1

Spatial Extent: N:18.316 E:-64.623 S:18.308 W:-64.731

Temporal Extent: 1994 - 2020

Project:

RUI: Pattern and process in four decades of change on Caribbean reefs (St John Coral Reefs)

Principal Investigator:

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

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2021-06-23

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Juvenile Porites along transects in St. John, US Virigin Islands between 1994 and 2020

Abstract:

These data are presented in Edmunds (2021) Fig. S1 in the supplementary materials and describe the number of juvenile corals (colonies ≤ 4 cm diameter) along the fixed 40 m transect lines at two sites in St. John, US Virgin Islands between 1994 and 2020.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2021-06-23	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.854447.1	2021-06-25

Methods & Sampling

Location: St. John, US Virgin Islands. 18.315°N, 64.716°W

Excerpt from publication Biology Letters

Juvenile Porites

Juvenile corals were ≤ 4-cm diameter, and were surveyed from 1994 to 2020 at six sites. Juveniles were unlikely to be sexually mature, and were identified assuming sexual maturity is reached at ~ 4 cm diameter. Favia fragum and Siderastrea radians probably achieved sexual maturity at < 4 cm and were excluded from the analyses.

Juvenile corals were counted in quadrats (0.5 × 0.5 m, n = 40) randomly placed along one 40-m transect at each site, with surveys conducted in May (1995-1995) or July/August (1994 and 1998-2020). Corals were identified to species or genus, and the results pooled among taxa.

Site List:

Cabritte Horn,18.308,-64.722

East Tektite,18.311,-64.722

West Tektite,18.312,-64.623

Donkey Bite,18.316,-64.721

Yawzi Point,18.315,-64.726

White Point,18.314,-64.731

Data Processing Description

SYSTAT version 13.0, from Systat Software, Inc., San Jose California USA.

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:

* Data table imported into the BCO-DMO data system from source file "Data in Paper 25 May 2021_Table 3.xlsx" Sheet name "Table 3"

* Modified parameter (column) names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions (only A-Z,a-z,0-9 and underscores. No spaces).

Data Files

File
porites_two_transects.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 114.10 KB) MD5:898f34253d30f6d8d710bc91ddfacccf Primary data file for dataset ID 854447

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-2019992

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Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Site	Site, East Tektite or Yawzi Point (see Fig. 1b in Edmunds (2021))	unitless	site
Taxon	Taxon: Pooled (sum of all taxa) or Porites spp.	unitless	taxon
Year	Year of measurement	unitless	year
Corals_per_quadrat	Corals per quadrat with the quadrat = 0.5 x 0.5 m	number per quadrat	density

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Dataset: Juvenile Porites along transects over multiple years