ERDDAP > info > bcodmo_dataset_662664

Grid DAP Data	Sub- set	Table DAP Data	Make A Graph	W M S	Source Data Files	Acces- sible	Title	Sum- mary	ISO, Metadata	Back- ground Info	RSS	E mail	Institution	Dataset ID
	set	data	graph		files	public	Data describing interactions between colonies on St. John, Virgin Islands in 2014.		I   M	background			BCO-DMO	bcodmo_dataset_662664

The Dataset's Variables and Attributes

Row Type	Variable Name	Attribute Name	Data Type	Value
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	access_formats	String	.htmlTable,.csv,.json,.mat,.nc,.tsv,.esriCsv,.geoJson
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	acquisition_description	String	Methodology\u00a0from\u00a0Gambrel, B.\u00a0and\u00a0Lasker, H.R., 2016 Octocoral colonies at East Cabritte and Europa Bay were surveyed to assess the spatial distribution and,in particular, the incidence of colonies in close proximity to each other. At each site, five 10 m \u00d7 1 m parallel belt transects were set up perpendicular to shore at10 m intervals starting at an arbitrarily selected point. Erythropodium caribaeorum and the encrusting form of Briareum asbestinum were not included in the surveys because they are not branching and, therefore,do not compete for space in the canopy. Each octocoral \u22655 cm in height was identified to species level in the field when possible; otherwise a small, 3 cm long sample was collected from colonies \u226515 cm tall for sclerite examination under a microscope. Images of the colony and a close-up image of the collected branch were also obtained. Identifications were based on Bayer (1961) and S\u00e1nchez (2009). Colonies were divided into 2 classes, those in close proximity to a neighbor, cases in which a colony\u2019s branches or base were within 5 cm of another octocoral colony, and those more distantly spaced. When the branches of 2 colonies are <5 cm apart, branch movement driven by currents and wave action often leads to contacts between the branches. Large colonies whose bases are within 5 cm of each other almost always have branches within 5 cm of each other, and small colonies with bases <5 cm apart at the time of settlement will almost inevitably come into contact with each other as they grow in the canopy. We recorded all instances of interactions. We did not distinguish between interspecific and intraspecific interactions since our goal was to first determine the overall incidence of competition among branching octocorals at the 2 sites. At East Cabritte, which had a greater density of octocorals than Europa Bay, 4 randomly selected 1\u00d71 m2 quadrats on each transect were surveyed while all 10 quadrats on each transect were surveyed atEuropa Bay. The height of each colony was measured to the nearest centimeter. Each colony was assessed for proximity to adjacent colonies and for effects of proximity, tissue damage to branches in close proximity to an adjacent colony and/or an asymmetric colony form. Only the octocorals with an asymmetric colony form attributable to the presence of another octocoral were scored as asymmetric in this study.Colonies that were asymmetric as a result of growing adjacent to a physical obstruction were not included as our focus was on the incidence of competition among octocorals. Examples of the different effects are shown in Fig. 1.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_nid	String	562090
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_number	String	OCE-1334052
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_data_url	String	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1334052
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funder_name	String	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_acronym	String	NSF OCE
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_source_nid	String	355
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager	String	David L. Garrison
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager_nid	String	50534
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	cdm_data_type	String	Other
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	comment	String	Transect Interaction Survey Howard Lasker, PI Version 14 October 2016
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Conventions	String	COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_email	String	info at bco-dmo.org
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_name	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_url	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	data_source	String	extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3 19 Dec 2019
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_created	String	2016-10-25T18:54:51Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_modified	String	2019-04-18T17:43:31Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	defaultDataQuery	String	&amp;time&lt;now
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	doi	String	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.662664.1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Easternmost_Easting	double	-64.72415
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_max	double	18.31685
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_min	double	18.3166
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_units	String	degrees_north
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_max	double	-64.72415
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_min	double	-64.72988
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_units	String	degrees_east
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	infoUrl	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662664
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	institution	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	keywords	String	asym, bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, damage, data, dataset, dmo, erddap, growth, growth_asym, height, interaction, interaction_type, latitude, longitude, management, meter, oceanography, office, preliminary, season, site, species, transect, type, year
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	license	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662664/license
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	metadata_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/662664
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Northernmost_Northing	double	18.31685
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	param_mapping	String	{'662664': {'lat': 'master - latitude', 'lon': 'master - longitude'}}
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	parameter_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/662664/parameters
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation	String	State University of New York at Buffalo
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation_acronym	String	SUNY Buffalo
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_name	String	Howard Lasker
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_nid	String	562092
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role	String	Principal Investigator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role_type	String	originator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation	String	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation_acronym	String	WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_name	String	Hannah Ake
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_nid	String	650173
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role	String	BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role_type	String	related
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	project	String	St. John LTREB,VI Octocorals
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_acronym	String	St. John LTREB
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_description	String	Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) in US Virgin Islands: From the NSF award abstract: In an era of growing human pressures on natural resources, there is a critical need to understand how major ecosystems will respond, the extent to which resource management can lessen the implications of these responses, and the likely state of these ecosystems in the future. Time-series analyses of community structure provide a vital tool in meeting these needs and promise a profound understanding of community change. This study focuses on coral reef ecosystems; an existing time-series analysis of the coral community structure on the reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands, will be expanded to 27 years of continuous data in annual increments. Expansion of the core time-series data will be used to address five questions: (1) To what extent is the ecology at a small spatial scale (1-2 km) representative of regional scale events (10's of km)? (2) What are the effects of declining coral cover in modifying the genetic population structure of the coral host and its algal symbionts? (3) What are the roles of pre- versus post-settlement events in determining the population dynamics of small corals? (4) What role do physical forcing agents (other than temperature) play in driving the population dynamics of juvenile corals? and (5) How are populations of other, non-coral invertebrates responding to decadal-scale declines in coral cover? Ecological methods identical to those used over the last two decades will be supplemented by molecular genetic tools to understand the extent to which declining coral cover is affecting the genetic diversity of the corals remaining. An information management program will be implemented to create broad access by the scientific community to the entire data set. The importance of this study lies in the extreme longevity of the data describing coral reefs in a unique ecological context, and the immense potential that these data possess for understanding both the patterns of comprehensive community change (i.e., involving corals, other invertebrates, and genetic diversity), and the processes driving them. Importantly, as this project is closely integrated with resource management within the VI National Park, as well as larger efforts to study coral reefs in the US through the NSF Moorea Coral Reef LTER, it has a strong potential to have scientific and management implications that extend further than the location of the study. The following publications and data resulted from this project: 2015    Edmunds PJ, Tsounis G, Lasker HR (2015) Differential distribution of octocorals and scleractinians around St. John and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Hydrobiologia. doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2555-zoctocoral - sp. abundance and distributionDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2015    Lenz EA, Bramanti L, Lasker HR, Edmunds PJ. Long-term variation of octocoral populations in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Coral Reefs DOI 10.1007/s00338-015-1315-xoctocoral survey - densitiesoctocoral counts - photoquadrats vs. insitu surveyoctocoral literature reviewDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2015   Privitera-Johnson, K., et al., Density-associated recruitment in octocoral communities in St. John, US Virgin Islands, J.Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. DOI 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.08.006octocoral recruitmentDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2014    Edmunds PJ. Landscape-scale variation in coral reef community structure in the United States Virgin Islands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 509: 137–152. DOI 10.3354/meps10891. Data at MCR-VINP. Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2014    Edmunds PJ, Nozawa Y, Villanueva RD.  Refuges modulate coral recruitment in the Caribbean and Pacific.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 454: 78-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2014.02.00 Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2014    Edmunds PJ, Gray SC.  The effects of storms, heavy rain, and sedimentation on the shallow coral reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands.  Hydrobiologia 734(1):143-148. Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2014    Levitan, D, Edmunds PJ, Levitan K. What makes a species common? No evidence of density-dependent recruitment or mortality of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum after the 1983-1984 mass mortality.  Oecologia. DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2871-9. Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2014    Lenz EA, Brown D, Didden C, Arnold A, Edmunds PJ.  The distribution of hermit crabs and their gastropod shells on shallow reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands.  Bulletin of Marine Science 90(2):681-692. https://dx.doi.org/10.5343/bms.2013.1049 Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2013    Edmunds PJ.  Decadal-scale changes in the community structure of coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 489: 107-123. Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (zipped Excel files) 2013    Brown D, Edmunds PJ.  Long-term changes in the population dynamics of the Caribbean hydrocoral Millepora spp.  J. Exp Mar Biol Ecol 441: 62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.01.013Millepora colony sizeMillepora cover - temps - storms 1992-2008Millepora cover 1992-2008seawater temperature USVI 1992-2008storms USVI 1992-2008Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2012    Brown D, Edmunds PJ. The hermit crab Calcinus tibicen lives commensally on Millepora spp. in St. John, United States Virgin Islands.  Coral Reefs 32: 127-135. doi: 10.1007/s00338-012-0948-2crab abundance and coral sizecrab displacement behaviorcrab nocturnal surveyscrab predator avoidanceDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2011    Green DH, Edmunds PJ.  Spatio-temporal variability of coral recruitment on shallow reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands.  Journal of Experimenal Marine Biology and Ecology 397: 220-229. Data at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2011    Colvard NB, Edmunds PJ. (2011) Decadal-scale changes in invertebrate abundances on a Caribbean coral reef.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 397(2): 153-160. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.11.015benthic invert codesinverts - Tektite and Yawzi Ptinverts - pooledDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_end_date	String	2014-04
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_geolocation	String	St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands; California State University Northridge
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_name	String	LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_project_nid	String	2272
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_project_website	String	http://coralreefs.csun.edu/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_start_date	String	2009-05
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_acronym	String	VI Octocorals
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_description	String	The recent past has not been good for coral reefs, and journals have been filled with examples of declining coral cover, crashing fish populations, rising cover of macroalgae, and a future potentially filled with slime. However, reefs are more than the corals and fishes for which they are known best, and their biodiversity is affected strongly by other groups of organisms. The non-coral fauna of reefs is being neglected in the rush to evaluate the loss of corals and fishes, and this project will add on to an on-going long term ecological study by studying soft corals. This project will be focused on the ecology of soft corals on reefs in St. John, USVI to understand the Past, Present and the Future community structure of soft corals in a changing world. For the Past, the principal investigators will complete a retrospective analysis of octocoral abundance in St. John between 1992 and the present, as well as Caribbean-wide since the 1960's. For the Present, they will: (i) evaluate spatio-temporal changes between soft corals and corals, (ii) test for the role of competition with macroalgae and between soft corals and corals as processes driving the rising abundance of soft corals, and (iii) explore the role of soft corals as "animal forests" in modifying physical conditions beneath their canopy, thereby modulating recruitment dynamics. For the Future the project will conduct demographic analyses on key soft corals to evaluate annual variation in population processes and project populations into a future impacted by global climate change. This project was funded to provide and independent "overlay" to the ongoing LTREB award (DEB-1350146, co-funded by OCE, PI Edmunds) focused on the long-term dynamics of coral reefs in St. John. Note: This project is closely associated with the project "RAPID: Resilience of Caribbean octocorals following Hurricanes Irma and Maria". See: https://www.bco-dmo.org/project/749653. The following publications and data resulted from this project: 2017 Tsounis, G., and P. J. Edmunds. Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: a contrast of scleractinians and octocorals. Ecosphere 8(1):e01646. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1646Rainfall and temperature dataCoral and macroalgae abundance and distributionDescriptions of hurricanes affecting St. John 2016 Gambrel, B. and Lasker, H.R. Marine Ecology Progress Series 546: 85–95, DOI: 10.3354/meps11670Colony to colony interactionsEunicea flexuosa interactionsGorgonia ventalina asymmetryNearest neighbor surveys 2015 Lenz EA, Bramanti L, Lasker HR, Edmunds PJ. Long-term variation of octocoral populations in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Coral Reefs DOI 10.1007/s00338-015-1315-xoctocoral survey - densitiesoctocoral counts - photoquadrats vs. insitu surveyoctocoral literature reviewDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) 2015 Privitera-Johnson, K., et al., Density-associated recruitment in octocoral communities in St. John, US Virgin Islands, J.Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.08.006octocoral density dependenceDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file) Other datasets related to this project:octocoral transects - adult colony height
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_end_date	String	2016-08
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_geolocation	String	St. John, US Virgin Islands: 18.3185, 64.7242
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_name	String	Ecology and functional biology of octocoral communities
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_project_nid	String	562086
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_project_website	String	http://coralreefs.csun.edu/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_start_date	String	2013-09
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_name	String	Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	sourceUrl	String	(local files)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Southernmost_Northing	double	18.3166
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	standard_name_vocabulary	String	CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	subsetVariables	String	year,season
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	summary	String	Data describing interactions between colonies on St. John, Virgin Islands in 2014.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	title	String	Data describing interactions between colonies on St. John, Virgin Islands in 2014.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	version	String	1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Westernmost_Easting	double	-64.72988
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	xml_source	String	osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
variable	year		short
attribute	year	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	year	actual_range	short	2014, 2014
attribute	year	bcodmo_name	String	year
attribute	year	description	String	Year sampling occurred; YYYY
attribute	year	long_name	String	Year
attribute	year	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/YEARXXXX/
attribute	year	units	String	unitless
variable	season		String
attribute	season	bcodmo_name	String	season
attribute	season	description	String	Season sampling occurred
attribute	season	long_name	String	Season
attribute	season	units	String	unitless
variable	site		String
attribute	site	bcodmo_name	String	site
attribute	site	description	String	Site where sampling occurred
attribute	site	long_name	String	Site
attribute	site	units	String	unitless
variable	latitude		double
attribute	latitude	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Lat
attribute	latitude	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	latitude	actual_range	double	18.3166, 18.31685
attribute	latitude	axis	String	Y
attribute	latitude	bcodmo_name	String	latitude
attribute	latitude	colorBarMaximum	double	90.0
attribute	latitude	colorBarMinimum	double	-90.0
attribute	latitude	description	String	Latitude; N is positive
attribute	latitude	ioos_category	String	Location
attribute	latitude	long_name	String	Latitude
attribute	latitude	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LATX/
attribute	latitude	standard_name	String	latitude
attribute	latitude	units	String	degrees_north
variable	longitude		double
attribute	longitude	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Lon
attribute	longitude	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	longitude	actual_range	double	-64.72988, -64.72415
attribute	longitude	axis	String	X
attribute	longitude	bcodmo_name	String	longitude
attribute	longitude	colorBarMaximum	double	180.0
attribute	longitude	colorBarMinimum	double	-180.0
attribute	longitude	description	String	Longitude; W is positve
attribute	longitude	ioos_category	String	Location
attribute	longitude	long_name	String	Longitude
attribute	longitude	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LONX/
attribute	longitude	standard_name	String	longitude
attribute	longitude	units	String	degrees_east
variable	transect		String
attribute	transect	bcodmo_name	String	transect
attribute	transect	description	String	Transect where sampling occurred
attribute	transect	long_name	String	Transect
attribute	transect	units	String	unitless
variable	meter		byte
attribute	meter	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	meter	actual_range	byte	0, 10
attribute	meter	bcodmo_name	String	transect
attribute	meter	description	String	Meter on transect where sampling occurred
attribute	meter	long_name	String	Meter
attribute	meter	units	String	meters
variable	species		String
attribute	species	bcodmo_name	String	species
attribute	species	description	String	Species of coral that was sampled
attribute	species	long_name	String	Species
attribute	species	units	String	unitless
variable	interaction_type		byte
attribute	interaction_type	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	interaction_type	actual_range	byte	0, 2
attribute	interaction_type	bcodmo_name	String	absorbance
attribute	interaction_type	description	String	Colonies were divided into interaction types. Those in close proximity to a neighbor (=cases in which a colon's branches were within 5 cm of another octocoral colony (1) or had based within 5 cm of another colony (2) and those more distantly spaced (0).
attribute	interaction_type	long_name	String	Interaction Type
attribute	interaction_type	units	String	unitless
variable	damage		byte
attribute	damage	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	damage	actual_range	byte	0, 1
attribute	damage	bcodmo_name	String	behav_code
attribute	damage	description	String	Abrasion from the interaction (1); no damage from the interaction (2)
attribute	damage	long_name	String	Damage
attribute	damage	units	String	unitless
variable	growth_asym		byte
attribute	growth_asym	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	growth_asym	actual_range	byte	0, 1
attribute	growth_asym	bcodmo_name	String	sample_descrip
attribute	growth_asym	description	String	Only the octocorals with an asymmetric colony form attributable to the presence of another octocoral were scored as asymmetric (1) in this study. All other colonies including those that were asymmetric as a result of growing adjacent to a physical obstruction were scored (0)
attribute	growth_asym	long_name	String	Growth Asym
attribute	growth_asym	units	String	unitless
variable	height		byte
attribute	height	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	height	actual_range	byte	0, 118
attribute	height	bcodmo_name	String	height
attribute	height	description	String	Height of each colony was measured to the nearest centimeter.
attribute	height	long_name	String	Height
attribute	height	units	String	centimeters

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