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| Dataset Title: | [Sponge density, morphology, benthos percent cover] - Sponge density and morphology and percent cover of sponges and associated community at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program site, pre- and post- hurricane, 2015-2017 (RAPID: Collaborative Research: Sponge resilience in the face of multiple stressors) 
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| Institution: | BCO-DMO (Dataset ID: bcodmo_dataset_814267) |
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Year {
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Int16 actual_range 2015, 2017;
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String description "sampling year";
String long_name "Year";
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String units "unitless";
}
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String description "sampling site identifier";
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String description "Number of sponges per unit area";
String long_name "Sponge Density";
String nerc_identifier "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P03/current/B070/";
String units "sponges/meter^2";
}
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String units "percent (%)";
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String units "percent (%)";
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String units "percent (%)";
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String description "percent of upright sponges on the transect";
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String units "percent (%)";
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String units "percent (%)";
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String units "percent (%)";
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"Prior to the 2017 hurricanes, six shallow (8-15 m depth) reef sites had been
selected from the Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring
Program\\u2019s (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites to study variation in sponge
communities in St. Thomas. These sites included Black Point
(N18\\u00b0\\u00a020.665\\u2019, W64\\u00b0\\u00a059.107\\u2019), Coculus Rock
(N18\\u00b0\\u00a018.734\\u2019, W64\\u00b0\\u00a051.613\\u2019), and Magens Bay
(N18\\u00b0 22.459\\u2019, W64\\u00b0 56.077\\u2019), which are in embayments with
heavily developed watersheds. Buck Island (N18\\u00b0 16.717\\u2019, W64\\u00b0
53.925\\u2019) and Savana Island (N18\\u00b0\\u00a020.437\\u2019,
W65\\u00b0\\u00a004.939\\u2019) are located near undeveloped offshore cays.
Botany Bay (N18\\u00b0\\u00a021.433\\u2019, W65\\u00b0\\u00a002.071\\u2019) is a
nearshore site in a bay with a low level of watershed development. For this
study, we used three randomly selected transects out of the six permanently
established 10 m TCRMP transects at each site. The same three transects at
each site were re-surveyed repeatedly in August 2015, August 2016 (pre-
hurricanes) and December 2017 (10 weeks post-hurricanes).\\u00a0
Sponge assemblages were surveyed on each transect using multiple measures.
Sponge density was quantified by a diver\\u00a0in situ\\u00a0by counting every
sponge individual (i.e., ramet) within 0.5 m of each transect (resulting in
0.5 x 10 m belt transects) for all sites except Black Point, where 0.5 m on
both sides of the transects (1 x 10 m belt transects) were surveyed. Density
(sponges/m2) was calculated as the total number of individual sponges per
transect, divided by the transect area (Gochfeld et al. 2020).
To determine whether different sponge morphologies were differentially
affected by hurricanes, each sponge from each transect was assigned to a broad
morphological category (sensu\\u00a0Wulff 2006). These categories included
excavating sponges (\\\"excavating\\\"); low relief encrusting sponges
(\\\"encrusting\\\"); thicker cushions, massive, tube, vase, or other amorphous
shapes of medium relief (\\u201cmassive\\u201d); and upright, branching and rope
sponges (\\u201cupright\\u201d). These groupings differ slightly from those used
by Wulff (2006), but represent the morphotypes found within our transects in
St. Thomas. The percent of the entire sponge community represented by each
morphological category was calculated as the number of individuals in each
category divided by the total number of individuals for each transect and
multiplied by 100 (Gochfeld et al. 2020).
Percent cover of sponges was determined from videos of the three transects at
each site following established methods from the Virgin Islands Territorial
Coral Reef Monitoring Program (Smith et al. 2016). A diver swam at uniform
speed while videoing the substrata from a height of approximately 0.4 m (the
height of a guide wand). Consecutive, non-overlapping images, each
approximately 0.64 x 0.48 m in planar area, were captured for each transect,
for an average of 21 images per transect. Twenty random points were
superimposed on each image (average of 1282 points per site, per sampling
period) and the benthic cover underneath each point was identified to the
lowest identifiable taxonomic level and used in the calculation of percent
cover by transect. Specific sponges were not identified in the benthic cover
analysis and were instead grouped into the overarching category of
\\u201cSponge\\u201d. The number of points per image required to adequately
characterize the percent cover of each of the benthic categories (sponges,
hard corals, macroalgae, epilithic algal community [EAC; i.e., diminutive turf
algae and other low complexity filamentous algal communities; Smith et al.
2016], non-living substrata, calcareous algae, cyanobacterial mats,
gorgonians, zoanthids and other/unknown living substrata) was determined by
visual inspection of the running means. For all categories, the mean value
stabilized at no more than 17 points per image per transect, indicating that
the 20 points analyzed per image was sufficient to accurately reflect percent
cover at these sites (Gochfeld et al. 2020).";
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String awards_0_funder_name "NSF Division of Ocean Sciences";
String awards_0_funding_acronym "NSF OCE";
String awards_0_funding_source_nid "355";
String awards_0_program_manager "Daniel Thornhill";
String awards_0_program_manager_nid "722161";
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String comment
"Sponge density, morphology, and percent cover of sponges and other benthos
at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites, 2015-2017
PI's: D. Gochfeld (U Miss), J. Olson (U.AL), M. Brandt (UVI)
version date: 2020-06-08";
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String creator_email "info@bco-dmo.org";
String creator_name "BCO-DMO";
String creator_type "institution";
String creator_url "https://www.bco-dmo.org/";
String data_source "extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3 19 Dec 2019";
String dataset_current_state "Final and no updates";
String date_created "2020-06-04T13:42:06Z";
String date_modified "2020-07-08T21:22:02Z";
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"2024-11-23T16:48:54Z (local files)
2024-11-23T16:48:54Z https://erddap.bco-dmo.org/erddap/tabledap/bcodmo_dataset_814267.html";
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String instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid "814488";
String instruments_0_description "All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.";
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String people_0_affiliation "University of Mississippi";
String people_0_affiliation_acronym "UM-NCNPR";
String people_0_person_name "Deborah J Gochfeld";
String people_0_person_nid "51458";
String people_0_role "Principal Investigator";
String people_0_role_type "originator";
String people_1_affiliation "University of the Virgin Islands Center for Marine and Environmental Studies";
String people_1_person_name "Marilyn Brandt";
String people_1_person_nid "559376";
String people_1_role "Co-Principal Investigator";
String people_1_role_type "originator";
String people_2_affiliation "University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa";
String people_2_affiliation_acronym "UA/Tuscaloosa";
String people_2_person_name "Julie Olson";
String people_2_person_nid "51454";
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String people_2_role_type "originator";
String people_3_affiliation "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution";
String people_3_affiliation_acronym "WHOI BCO-DMO";
String people_3_person_name "Nancy Copley";
String people_3_person_nid "50396";
String people_3_role "BCO-DMO Data Manager";
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String project "Sponge resilience";
String projects_0_acronym "Sponge resilience";
String projects_0_description
"NSF Award Abstract:
Over the past several decades, coral reefs worldwide have undergone a transition from being dominated by the corals themselves to being dominated by sponges or algae. The causes of these changes are complex, but they include both natural stressors, such as diseases and hurricanes, and impacts from human activities, such as coastal development and climate change. There are over 600 species of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs, and they serve many important ecological roles, including nutrient cycling, providing food and shelter for other reef animals, and producing a tremendous diversity of chemical compounds that are important for controlling species interactions on the reef, and may serve as potential new drugs. In spite of their importance on coral reefs, there are many aspects of sponge biology that remain unknown, including how they respond to different types of stressors. Coral reefs in St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, are exposed to different levels of man-made stressors, depending upon their proximity to coastal development, and the sponge assemblages on these reefs also vary with levels of human impacts. In September 2017, St. Thomas was devastated by two Category 5 hurricanes in a row. Since, unlike corals, virtually nothing is known about what happens to sponge communities in the aftermath of hurricanes, the research team will use a combination of field ecology and population genetics approaches to determine how sponge communities respond and recover from these devastating storms and whether prior exposure to land-based stressors affects their recovery. Researchers at the Universities of Mississippi, Alabama and the Virgin Islands will participate in this RAPID project, and will provide training opportunities for students and postdoctoral researchers, especially from underrepresented groups. Information will be provided to resource managers in the Virgin Islands, along with outreach programs to community groups in St. Thomas.
The goal of this project is to assess the impacts of single (e.g., hurricanes) versus multiple (e.g., hurricanes and land-based sources of pollution) stressors on the resilience, recovery, and recruitment of sponge communities in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Given the growing dominance of sponges on coral reefs worldwide, understanding the responses of sponges to natural and anthropogenic stressors is increasingly important. The investigators will leverage multiple years of data on sponge assemblages from several sites around the island of St. Thomas that varied in their levels of exposure to local land-based stressors prior to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and evaluate changes to these diverse assemblages over time, beginning within 3 months of these devastating storms. Using a combination of natural and experimentally cleared plots, the investigators will assess the progress of sponge succession and whether the presence of algae interferes with sponge recruitment and recovery. Subsamples of recruits and nearby conspecifics will be collected to evaluate population genetic diversity and potential sources of new individuals. The data resulting from this project will provide critical insights into sponge resilience in response to hurricanes at sites previously exposed to land-based stressors, the initiation of succession within sponge communities, potential predictors of successional trajectory, and genetic diversity within sponge populations following a storm event. This information will help identify factors that inhibit coral recovery and potential approaches to enhance resilience of coral reefs.";
String projects_0_end_date "2019-11";
String projects_0_geolocation "St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands";
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String projects_0_project_nid "749384";
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String summary "Sponge density and morphology and percent cover of sponges and associated benthic community determined from videos of three transects at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program site, pre- and post-hurricane, 2015-2017.";
String title "[Sponge density, morphology, benthos percent cover] - Sponge density and morphology and percent cover of sponges and associated community at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program site, pre- and post-hurricane, 2015-2017 (RAPID: Collaborative Research: Sponge resilience in the face of multiple stressors)";
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