Dataset: Nearest neighboring octocoral data from long-term sampling sites in St. John, USVI.

Final no updates expectedVersion 1 (2018-09-06)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

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

Contact: Malek Al Maryati (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Hannah Ake (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)

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

Data published in JEMBE paper entitled “Octocoral distribution is associated with substratum orientation on coral reefs in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands".


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Methods, Results

Al-Marayati, M., & Edmunds, P. J. (2018). Octocoral distribution is associated with substratum orientation on coral reefs in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 500, 55–62. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2017.12.015