ERDDAP > info > bcodmo_dataset_735088

Grid DAP Data	Sub- set	Table DAP Data	Make A Graph	W M S	Source Data Files	Acces- sible	Title	Sum- mary	FGDC, ISO, Metadata	Back- ground Info	RSS	E mail	Institution	Dataset ID
		data	graph		files	public	[Environmental data] - Environmental data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI. (LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019)		I   M	background			BCO-DMO	bcodmo_dataset_735088

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	Methodology can be found in paper (Gross, K. and Edmunds, P. J. 2015).
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
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	562593
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_award_number	String	DEB-1350146
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_data_url	String	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1350146
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_funder_name	String	NSF Division of Environmental Biology
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_funding_acronym	String	NSF DEB
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_funding_source_nid	String	550432
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_program_manager	String	Betsy Von Holle
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_1_program_manager_nid	String	701685
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	cdm_data_type	String	Other
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	comment	String	Environmental data P. Edmunds, PI Version 14 September 2018
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	2018-05-04T19:11:53Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_modified	String	2019-03-25T18:08:44Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	defaultDataQuery	String	&time<now
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	doi	String	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.735088.1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	infoUrl	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/735088
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	institution	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	keywords	String	bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, data, dataset, dhm, dmo, erddap, hurricane, management, oceanography, office, preliminary, year
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	license	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/735088/license
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	metadata_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/735088
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	param_mapping	String	{'735088': {}}
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	parameter_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/735088/parameters
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	North Carolina State University
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation_acronym	String	NCSU
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_name	String	Kevin Gross
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_nid	String	535324
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role	String	Contact
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role_type	String	related
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,RUI-LTREB
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	RUI-LTREB
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_description	String	Describing how ecosystems like coral reefs are changing is at the forefront of efforts to evaluate the biological consequences of global climate change and ocean acidification. Coral reefs have become the poster child of these efforts. Amid concern that they could become ecologically extinct within a century, describing what has been lost, what is left, and what is at risk, is of paramount importance. This project exploits an unrivalled legacy of information beginning in 1987 to evaluate the form in which reefs will persist, and the extent to which they will be able to resist further onslaughts of environmental challenges. This long-term project continues a 27-year study of Caribbean coral reefs. The diverse data collected will allow the investigators to determine the roles of local and global disturbances in reef degradation. The data will also reveal the structure and function of reefs in a future with more human disturbances, when corals may no longer dominate tropical reefs. The broad societal impacts of this project include advancing understanding of an ecosystem that has long been held emblematic of the beauty, diversity, and delicacy of the biological world. Proposed research will expose new generations of undergraduate and graduate students to natural history and the quantitative assessment of the ways in which our planet is changing. This training will lead to a more profound understanding of contemporary ecology at the same time that it promotes excellence in STEM careers and supports technology infrastructure in the United States. Partnerships will be established between universities and high schools to bring university faculty and students in contact with k-12 educators and their students, allow teachers to carry out research in inspiring coral reef locations, and motivate children to pursue STEM careers. Open access to decades of legacy data will stimulate further research and teaching.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_end_date	String	2019-04
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_geolocation	String	USVI
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_name	String	RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_project_nid	String	734983
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_project_website	String	http://coralreefs.csun.edu/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_1_start_date	String	2014-05
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	Environmental data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	title	String	[Environmental data] - Environmental data from long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI. (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	1992, 2011
attribute	year	bcodmo_name	String	year
attribute	year	description	String	Year sampled
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	dhm		float
attribute	dhm	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	dhm	actual_range	float	0.0, 1.82
attribute	dhm	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	dhm	description	String	Accumulated degree heating months
attribute	dhm	long_name	String	DHM
attribute	dhm	units	String	degrees
variable	hurricane		float
attribute	hurricane	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	hurricane	actual_range	float	0.0, 2.0
attribute	hurricane	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	hurricane	description	String	Metric of hurricane activity based on classification of major and minor storms
attribute	hurricane	long_name	String	Hurricane
attribute	hurricane	units	String	unitless

The information in the table above is also available in other file formats (.csv, .htmlTable, .itx, .json, .jsonlCSV1, .jsonlCSV, .jsonlKVP, .mat, .nc, .nccsv, .tsv, .xhtml) via a RESTful web service.