Dataset: Survival of juvenile corals

Name: Survival of juvenile corals in St. John, US Virigin Islands, annual mortality from 1996 to 2020
Published: 2021-06-23
Keywords: scleractinia, juvenile, Coral, Survivorship, Caribbean, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.854455.1

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

Temporal Extent: 1996 - 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

Survival of juvenile corals in St. John, US Virigin Islands, annual mortality from 1996 to 2020

Abstract:

These data are presented in Edmunds (2021) Fig. S2 in the supplementary materials and describe the annual mortality of tagged juvenile corals at six sites. Mortality (number of corals dead at the end of the period) is calculated as a percentage of the corals tagged at the start of the period in St. John, US Virgin Islands between 1996 and 2020. These data support Fig. S2 in the supplementary materials and describe annual mortality of tagged juvemnile corals at six sites. Mortality (number of corals dead at the end of the period) is caculated as a percentage of the corals tagged at the start of the period

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2021-06-23	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.854455.1	2021-06-25

Methods & Sampling

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

Excerpt from publication Biology Letters

Juvenile corals

As part of another study small corals were tagged at each site, and their annual mortality (pooled by taxon) averaged across years by site, was used to evaluate whether variation in density was associated with mortality (i.e., with high mortality driving low densities).

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 4.xlsx" Sheet name "Table 4."
* 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
juv_survival.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.96 KB) MD5:f013063e0e9466164e345b75770ee43c Primary data file for dataset ID 854455

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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
Period	Period, which is ~12 months between July/August in one year and July/August in the next year	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
Site	Site: White Point, Yawzi Point, West Tektite, East Tektite, Cabritte Horn	unitless	site
Corals_tagged	Total corals tagged (number) at the start of the period	per coral	no_bcodmo_term
Corals_dead	Corals dead at the end of the period (of the number that originally were tagged).	per coral	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: Survival of juvenile corals