Dataset: Summary sponge abundance by species and site on the coral reefs of St. John USVI from photoquadrats taken between 1992 and 2017

Final with updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.819479.1Version 1 (2020-07-24)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: RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019 (RUI-LTREB)

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


Abstract

Abundance of sponges (on both density scale – number per quadrat – and volume scale – estimated volume per quadrat) for three sites over time on the shallow coral reefs of St. John from 1992-2017. Data support Figure S2 in the paper published in Marine Biology (Edumunds et al., 2020).

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Abundance of sponges (on both density scale – number per quadrat – and volume scale – estimated volume per quadrat) for three sites over time on the shallow coral reefs of St. John from 1992-2017. Data support Figure S2 in the paper published in Marine Biology (Edumunds et al., 2020). 

Other datasets from Edmunds et al. (2020) are listed on the page https://www.bco-dmo.org/related-resource/819411.


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Edmunds, P., Coblentz, M. & Wulff, J. (2020) A quarter-century of variation in sponge abundance and community structure on shallow reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Marine Biology. accepted. doi: 10.1007/s00227-020-03740-8
Methods

Alvarez-Filip L, Côté IM, Gill JA, Watkinson AR, Dulvy NK (2011) Region-wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story? Glob Chang Biol 17:2470–2477. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02385.x
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Edmunds, P. (2013). Decadal-scale changes in the community structure of coral reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 489, 107–123. doi:10.3354/meps10424
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Edmunds, P. J. (2019). Three decades of degradation lead to diminished impacts of severe hurricanes on Caribbean reefs. Ecology, 100(3), e02587. doi:10.1002/ecy.2587
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Edmunds, P. J., & Gray, S. C. (2014). The effects of storms, heavy rain, and sedimentation on the shallow coral reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Hydrobiologia, 734(1), 143–158. doi:10.1007/s10750-014-1876-7