Dataset: Demersal fish feeding rates within and at edges of octocoral communities at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, Feb- Mar 2016

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.826263.1Version 1 (2020-10-08)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

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

Co-Principal Investigator: Georgios Tsounis (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative research: Ecology and functional biology of octocoral communities (VI Octocorals)

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


Abstract

Demersal fish feeding rates within and at edges of octocoral communities at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, February and March 2016.

Demersal fish feeding rates within and at edges of octocoral communities at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, February and March 2016.

These data were used to test hypothesis 3 in Tsounis et al. Coral Reefs (2020): Table 3; Figure 5: the role of competition in algal turf and macroalgae in determining the success of octocoral and scleractian recruits.

These data are a continuation of BCO-DMO project 562086 (http://www.bco-dmo.org/project/562086) and BCO-DMO project 752508 (https://www.bco-dmo.org/project/752508).


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Dataset: Fish abundance: canopy effect fish assemblage
Edmunds, P. J., Tsounis, G. (2020) Fish abundance and foraging rates by family from point surveys within and outside of canopies at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, Feb- Mar 2016. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2020-10-07 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.826193.1
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Dataset: Focal fish foraging
Edmunds, P. J., Tsounis, G. (2020) Fish bite rates of individual 'focal' herbivorous fishes within and outside of canopies at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, Feb- Mar 2016. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2020-10-08 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.826253.1
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Dataset: Canopy effect benthic community
Edmunds, P. J., Tsounis, G. (2020) Scleractinian coral counts within and outside of canopies at Lameshur Bay, St John, USVI, Feb- Mar 2016. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2020-10-07 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.826227.1

Related Publications

Results

Tsounis, G., Steele, M. A., & Edmunds, P. J. (2020). Elevated feeding rates of fishes within octocoral canopies on Caribbean reefs. Coral Reefs, 39(5), 1299–1311. doi:10.1007/s00338-020-01963-1