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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\n \nPhysical environmental conditions were characterized using three features that\nare well-known to affect coral reef community dynamics (described in Glynn\n1993, Rogers 1993, Fabricius et al. 2005): seawater temperature, rainfall, and\nhurricane intensity. Together, these were used to generate seven dependent\nvariables describing physical environmental features. Seawater temperature was\nrecorded at each site every 15-30 min using a variety of logging sensors (see\nEdmunds 2006 for detailed information on the temperature measurement regime).\nSeawater temperature was characterized using five dependent variables\ncalculated for each calendar year: mean temperature, maximum temperature, and\nminimum temperature (all averaged by day and month for each year), as well as\nthe number of days hotter than 29.3 deg C (\\u201chot days\\u201d), and the\nnumber of days with temperatures greater than or equal to 26.0 deg C\n(\\u201ccold days\\u201d). The temperature defining \\\"hot days\\\" was determined\nby the coral bleaching threshold for St. John\n([http://www.coral.noaa.gov/research/climate-change/coral-\nbleaching.html](\\\\\"http://www.coral.noaa.gov/research/climate-change/coral-\nbleaching.html\\\\\")), and the temperature defining \\\"cold days\\\" was taken as\n26.0 deg C which marks the lower 12th percentile of all daily temperatures\nbetween 1989 and 2005 (Edmunds, 2006). The upper temperature limit was defined\nby the local bleaching threshold, and the lower limit defined the\n12th\\u00a0percentile of local seawater temperature records (see Edmunds 2006\nfor details). Rainfall was measured at various locations around St. John\n(see\\u00a0[http://www.sercc.com](\\\\\"http://www.sercc.com\\\\\")) but often on the\nnorth shore (courtesy of R.\\u00a0Boulon) (see Edmunds and Gray 2014). To\nassess the influence of hurricanes, a categorical index of local hurricane\nimpact was employed, with the index based on qualitative estimates of wave\nimpacts in Great Lameshur Bay as a function of wind speed, wind direction, and\ndistance of the nearest approach of each hurricane to the study area (see\nGross and Edmunds 2015). Index values of 0 were assigned to years with no\nhurricanes, 0.5 to hurricanes with low impacts, and 1 for hurricanes with high\nimpacts, and years were characterized by the sum of their hurricane index\nvalues.
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 Physical Data \n  G. Tsounis and P. Edmunds, PIs \n  Version 10 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 2016-11-08T16:41:38Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_modified String 2018-11-08T19:50:14Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL defaultDataQuery String &time<now
attribute NC_GLOBAL doi String 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.664755
attribute NC_GLOBAL infoUrl String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664254 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL institution String BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_acronym String PrecipGauge
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_dataset_instrument_description String Measured rainfall
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid String 664662
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_description String measures rain or snow precipitation
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_external_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/381/ (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_name String Precipitation Gauge
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_instrument_nid String 671
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_0_supplied_name String Precipitation gauge
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_dataset_instrument_description String Measured seawater temperature
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_dataset_instrument_nid String 664661
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_description String Records temperature data over a period of time.
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_instrument_name String Temperature Logger
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_instrument_nid String 639396
attribute NC_GLOBAL instruments_1_supplied_name String Temperature logger
attribute NC_GLOBAL keywords String bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, cold, coldDays_num, data, dataset, days, dmo, erddap, hot, hotDays_num, management, max, min, num, oceanography, office, precipitation, preliminary, rain, rainfall, sea, seawater, surface, temp_max, temp_min, temp_seawaterSurface, temperature, water, year
attribute NC_GLOBAL license String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664254/license (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL metadata_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/664254 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL param_mapping String {'664254': {}}
attribute NC_GLOBAL parameter_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/664254/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:\nFrom the NSF award abstract:\nIn 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.\nThe 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.\nThe following publications and data resulted from this project:\n2015    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)\n2015    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)\n2015   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)\n2014    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.\nData at MCR-VINP.\nDownload complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2014    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\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2014    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.\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2014    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.\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2014    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\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2013    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.\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (zipped Excel files)\n2013    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)\n2012    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)\n2011    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.\nData at MCR-VINP.Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)\n2011    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.\nThis 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.\nNote: 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.\nThe following publications and data resulted from this project:\n2017 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\n2016 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\n2015 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)\n2015 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)\nOther 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 summary String Temperature and rainfall data for St. John USVI.
attribute NC_GLOBAL title String [Rainfall and temperature data] - Rainfall and seawater temperature in St. John, USVI in 1987–2013 (St. John LTREB project, VI Octocorals project). (LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019)
attribute NC_GLOBAL version String 1
attribute NC_GLOBAL xml_source String osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
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 unitless
variable rainfall float
attribute rainfall _FillValue float NaN
attribute rainfall actual_range float 68.072, 186.0042
attribute rainfall bcodmo_name String precip_level
attribute rainfall description String Annual precipitation recorded at http://www.sercc.com
attribute rainfall long_name String Rainfall
attribute rainfall units String centimeters
variable temp_seawaterSurface float
attribute temp_seawaterSurface _FillValue float NaN
attribute temp_seawaterSurface actual_range float 27.2, 28.3
attribute temp_seawaterSurface bcodmo_name String temperature
attribute temp_seawaterSurface description String Mean temperature (averaged by day and month for each year)
attribute temp_seawaterSurface long_name String Temp Seawater Surface
attribute temp_seawaterSurface nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/TEMPP901/ (external link)
attribute temp_seawaterSurface units String celsius
variable temp_min float
attribute temp_min _FillValue float NaN
attribute temp_min actual_range float 24.9, 26.3
attribute temp_min bcodmo_name String temperature
attribute temp_min description String Minimum temperature (averaged by day and month for each year)
attribute temp_min long_name String Temp Min
attribute temp_min nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/TEMPP901/ (external link)
attribute temp_min units String celsius
variable temp_max float
attribute temp_max _FillValue float NaN
attribute temp_max actual_range float 28.9, 30.6
attribute temp_max bcodmo_name String temperature
attribute temp_max description String Maximum temperature (averaged by day and month for each year)
attribute temp_max long_name String Temp Max
attribute temp_max nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/TEMPP901/ (external link)
attribute temp_max units String celsius
variable hotDays_num float
attribute hotDays_num _FillValue float NaN
attribute hotDays_num actual_range float 0.0, 112.0
attribute hotDays_num bcodmo_name String unknown
attribute hotDays_num description String Number of days per year with temperatures less than 29.3 deg C
attribute hotDays_num long_name String Hot Days Num
attribute hotDays_num units String count
variable coldDays_num byte
attribute coldDays_num _FillValue byte 127
attribute coldDays_num actual_range byte 0, 94
attribute coldDays_num bcodmo_name String unknown
attribute coldDays_num description String Number of days per year with temperatures greater than or equal to 26.0 deg C
attribute coldDays_num long_name String Cold Days Num
attribute coldDays_num units String count

 
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