Dataset: Octocoral colony density by pooled taxa, site, and quadrat from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.789181.1Version 1 (2020-02-04)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)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Collaborative Research: Pattern and process in the abundance and recruitment of Caribbean octocorals (Octocoral Community Dynamics)

Abstract

Octocoral community NMDS from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017. These data were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019) Figure 3, Community non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS).

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Octocoral community NMDS from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017. These data were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019) Figure 3, Community non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS).

Related Datasets: all were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019):

* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 1a: Density pooled taxa and one year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789128
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 1b: Height pooled taxa and one year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789140
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 2a: Density by taxon and year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789145
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 2b: Height by taxon and year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789149
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 3: Community NMDS https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789181
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S1: Sampling effort https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789188
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S3: Sampling effort, juveniles https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789195
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S4: Colony sizes https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789202
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S5a: Density https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789210
* Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S5b: Height https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789217

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Edmunds, P., & Lasker, H. (2019). Regulation of population size of arborescent octocorals on shallow Caribbean reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 615, 1–14. doi:10.3354/meps12907

Edmunds, P., Lasker, H. (2020) Octocoral colony density by pooled taxa, site, and quadrat from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2020-02-04 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.789181.1 [access date]

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