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   set  data   graph     files  public Octocorals surveys 1987\u20132013 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project).    ?     I   M   background (external link) RSS Subscribe BCO-DMO bcodmo_dataset_664241

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
attribute NC_GLOBAL acquisition_description String Based on Tsounis and Edmunds (In press), Ecosphere:\u00a0

Analyses are based on ~ 1,600\u00a0photoquadrats\u00a0recorded annually since
1987. Photoquadrats were recorded with a Nikonos V camera fitted with
Kodachrome 64 slide film from 1987-1999, but from 2000, digital cameras were
used (2000-2006: Nikon Coolpix 990, 3.3 megapixels; 2007: Nikon D70, 6.1
megapixels; 2011, Nikon D90, 12.3 megapixels; and 2012-2013, Nikon D7000, 16.2
megapixels). Cameras were fitted with a strobe (Nikonos SB105) and mounted on
a\u00a0quadrapod\u00a0holding them perpendicular to the substratum (Edmunds
2002, 2013). The camera\u00a0framer\u00a0remained identical throughout the
study and together with the cameras, resolved objects greater than or equal to
10-mm diameter in a 1 \u00d7 1 m\u00a0framer. At each
site,\u00a0photoquadrats\u00a0were recorded at ~ 10 contiguous locations along
each of three transects that are parallel to one another
at\u00a0constant\u00a0depth (+/- 2 meters), and 5-m apart (30 images
y-1\u00a0at each site). The same transects were resampled every year. Sampling
occurred in December 1987, March 1988, July 1988, December 1988, April 1989,
October 1989, March 1991, May 1992, June 1993, August 1994, May 1995 to 1997,
and July or August thereafter. Images are
archived\u00a0online\u00a0([http://mcr.lternet.edu/vinp/overview/](\\"http://mcr.lternet.edu/vinp/overview/\\")).

Images were analyzed for percentage cover of benthic organisms using CPCe
version 3.6 software (Kohler and Gill 2006), or for\u00a0abundance\u00a0of
octocoral colonies (number of colonies). First, percentage cover was
determined using 200 dots randomly scattered on each image and scored by their
occurrence on scleractinians, macroalgae (algae greater than or equal to 1 cm
high, consisting mostly of\u00a0Halimeda, Lobophora,
Padina,\u00a0and\u00a0Dictyota), and CTB. Scleractinians were scored as a
single functional group as the fauna was dominated
by\u00a0O.\u00a0annularis\u00a0(85 % at Yawzi; 58 % at Tektite, 1987), and
resolution in the 1 x 1 m\u00a0photoquadrats\u00a0made it difficult to resolve
small colonies such as those of\u00a0Agaricia\u00a0and
juvenile\u00a0Porites\u00a0spp. Second, colony abundance of octocorals
(individuals m-2) was quantified with annual resolution, and colonies were
counted when their holdfasts were visible in the\u00a0photoquadrats\u00a0(Lenz
et al. 2015).\u00a0Erythropodium\u00a0spp. and
encrusting\u00a0Briareum\u00a0spp. were represented at low cover and
abundance, and were quantified based on the number of discrete areas of
colonies. Numerical abundance of octocorals was used at annual resolution.
Cover data with 5-year resolution were included for comparison with other
studies.

Octocorals are challenging to resolve to species underwater, because
identification typically requires analysis of sclerites (Bayer 1961) in
voucher specimens, the collection of which is restricted in the Virgin Islands
National Park. Identification is even more challenging
in\u00a0photoquadrats\u00a0where lighting and resolution can be limiting, and
therefore our analysis focused on the 11 genera found at these
sites:\u00a0Briareum, Erythropodium, Plexaura, Pseudoplexaura,\u00a0Eunicea,
Plexaurella, Muriceopsis, Antillogorgia,\u00a0and\u00a0Gorgonia. Small
colonies of\u00a0Eunicea,\u00a0Plexaurella,\u00a0Pseudoplexaura,
and\u00a0Plexaura\u00a0spp. were scored as \u201cunknowns\u201d as they could
not be distinguished in the photographs. The height of small colonies could
not be determined in planar images, but they were ~ 12 cm
tall.\u00a0Pterogorgia\u00a0and\u00a0Muricea\u00a0were found in the region,
and either were not detected in the sampling areas, or could not be resolved
in the photographs.

References:

Edmunds, P. J. 2002. Long-term dynamics of coral reefs in St. John US Virgin
827 Islands. Coral Reefs 21:357\u2212367.
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_nid String 55191
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_number String DEB-0841441
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_data_url String http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0841441&HistoricalAwards=false (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funder_name String National Science Foundation
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funding_acronym String NSF
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funding_source_nid String 350
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_program_manager String Saran Twombly
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_program_manager_nid String 51702
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_award_nid String 562085
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_award_number String OCE-1332915
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_data_url String http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1332915 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_funder_name String NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_funding_acronym String NSF OCE
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_funding_source_nid String 355
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_program_manager String David L. Garrison
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_1_program_manager_nid String 50534
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_award_nid String 562593
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_award_number String DEB-1350146
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_data_url String http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1350146 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_funder_name String NSF Division of Environmental Biology
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_funding_acronym String NSF DEB
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_funding_source_nid String 550432
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_program_manager String Betsy Von Holle
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_2_program_manager_nid String 701685
attribute NC_GLOBAL cdm_data_type String Other
attribute NC_GLOBAL comment String Octocoral Abundance
G. Tsounis and P. Edmunds, PIs
Version 14 November 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/ (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL data_source String extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3 19 Dec 2019
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_created String 2016-11-08T16:38:55Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_modified String 2018-11-16T20:16:40Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL defaultDataQuery String &time<now
attribute NC_GLOBAL doi String 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.664750
attribute NC_GLOBAL infoUrl String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664241 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL institution String BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_acronym String camera
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_dataset_instrument_description String Nikon D90 - 6.8 megapixel digital camera
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid String 664252
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_description String All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_external_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/ (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_name String Camera
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_nid String 520
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_supplied_name String camera
attribute NC_GLOBAL keywords String antillogorgia, bco, bco-dmo, biological, briareum, chemical, data, dataset, dmo, erddap, erythropodium, eunicea, gorgonia, management, muricea, muriceopsis, oceanography, octocorals, octocorals_total, office, plexaura, plexaurella, preliminary, pseudoplexaura, pterogorgia, site, total, year
attribute NC_GLOBAL license String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664241/license (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL metadata_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/664241 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL param_mapping String {'664241': {}}
attribute NC_GLOBAL parameter_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/664241/parameters (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation String California State University Northridge
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation_acronym String CSU-Northridge
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_name String Peter J. Edmunds
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_nid String 51536
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 California State University Northridge
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_affiliation_acronym String CSU-Northridge
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_name String Dr Georgios Tsounis
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_nid String 565353
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role String Co-Principal Investigator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role_type String originator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_affiliation String Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_affiliation_acronym String WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_person_name String Hannah Ake
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_person_nid String 650173
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_role String BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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 standard_name_vocabulary String CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute NC_GLOBAL subsetVariables String Muricea
attribute NC_GLOBAL summary String Surveys of octocorals from 1987-2013
attribute NC_GLOBAL title String Octocorals surveys 1987\u20132013 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project).
attribute NC_GLOBAL version String 1
attribute NC_GLOBAL xml_source String osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
variable site   String  
attribute site bcodmo_name String site
attribute site description String Site at which data were collected: Yawzi Point or Tektite
attribute site long_name String Site
attribute site units String site
variable year   short  
attribute year _FillValue short 32767
attribute year actual_range short 1987, 2013
attribute year bcodmo_name String year
attribute year description String Year in which photoquadrats were recorded; YYYY
attribute year long_name String Year
attribute year nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/YEARXXXX/ (external link)
attribute year units String year
variable Briareum   float  
attribute Briareum _FillValue float NaN
attribute Briareum actual_range float 0.0, 0.21
attribute Briareum bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Briareum description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Briareum
attribute Briareum long_name String Briareum
attribute Briareum nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Briareum units String count
variable Erythropodium   float  
attribute Erythropodium _FillValue float NaN
attribute Erythropodium actual_range float 0.0, 1.9
attribute Erythropodium bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Erythropodium description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Erythropodium
attribute Erythropodium long_name String Erythropodium
attribute Erythropodium nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Erythropodium units String count
variable Pseudoplexaura   float  
attribute Pseudoplexaura _FillValue float NaN
attribute Pseudoplexaura actual_range float 0.0, 0.33
attribute Pseudoplexaura bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Pseudoplexaura description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Pseudoplexaura
attribute Pseudoplexaura long_name String Pseudoplexaura
attribute Pseudoplexaura nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Pseudoplexaura units String count
variable Eunicea   float  
attribute Eunicea _FillValue float NaN
attribute Eunicea actual_range float 0.0, 0.24
attribute Eunicea bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Eunicea description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Eunicea
attribute Eunicea long_name String Eunicea
attribute Eunicea nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Eunicea units String count
variable Plexaurella   float  
attribute Plexaurella _FillValue float NaN
attribute Plexaurella actual_range float 0.0, 0.13
attribute Plexaurella bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Plexaurella description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Plexaurella
attribute Plexaurella long_name String Plexaurella
attribute Plexaurella nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Plexaurella units String count
variable Muricea   float  
attribute Muricea _FillValue float NaN
attribute Muricea actual_range float 0.0, 0.0
attribute Muricea bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Muricea description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Muricea
attribute Muricea long_name String Muricea
attribute Muricea nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Muricea units String count
variable Muriceopsis   float  
attribute Muriceopsis _FillValue float NaN
attribute Muriceopsis actual_range float 0.0, 0.6
attribute Muriceopsis bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Muriceopsis description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Muriceopsis
attribute Muriceopsis long_name String Muriceopsis
attribute Muriceopsis nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Muriceopsis units String count
variable Antillogorgia   float  
attribute Antillogorgia _FillValue float NaN
attribute Antillogorgia actual_range float 0.0, 0.47
attribute Antillogorgia bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Antillogorgia description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Antillogorgia
attribute Antillogorgia long_name String Antillogorgia
attribute Antillogorgia nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Antillogorgia units String count
variable Gorgonia   float  
attribute Gorgonia _FillValue float NaN
attribute Gorgonia actual_range float 0.07, 1.27
attribute Gorgonia bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Gorgonia description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Gorgonia
attribute Gorgonia long_name String Gorgonia
attribute Gorgonia nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Gorgonia units String count
variable Pterogorgia   float  
attribute Pterogorgia _FillValue float NaN
attribute Pterogorgia actual_range float 0.0, 0.07
attribute Pterogorgia bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Pterogorgia description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Pterogorgia
attribute Pterogorgia long_name String Pterogorgia
attribute Pterogorgia nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Pterogorgia units String count
variable Plexaura   float  
attribute Plexaura _FillValue float NaN
attribute Plexaura actual_range float 0.0, 2.1
attribute Plexaura bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute Plexaura description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of Plexaura
attribute Plexaura long_name String Plexaura
attribute Plexaura nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute Plexaura units String count
variable unknown   float  
attribute unknown _FillValue float NaN
attribute unknown actual_range float 0.0, 0.33
attribute unknown bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute unknown description String Abundance (individual octocoral colony as defined by ist holdfast in the 1x1 m photoquadrat) of colonies that could not be put in the genera
attribute unknown nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute unknown units String count
variable octocorals_total   float  
attribute octocorals_total _FillValue float NaN
attribute octocorals_total actual_range float 0.5, 3.55
attribute octocorals_total bcodmo_name String abundance
attribute octocorals_total description String Sum of octocoral species listed
attribute octocorals_total long_name String Octocorals Total
attribute octocorals_total nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/ (external link)
attribute octocorals_total units String count

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