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Dataset Title:	[Edmunds et al. 2023 Oecologia: Coral Cover] - Percentage cover of the benthos by live coral at 10 m depth at sites in Moorea Moorea, French Polynesia from 2008 to 2021 (Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site)
Institution:	BCO-DMO (Dataset ID: bcodmo_dataset_918265_v1)
Range:	depth = 10.0 to 10.0m
Information:	Summary \| License \| Metadata \| Background \| Data Access Form \| Files

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Things You Can Do With Your Graphs

Well, you can do anything you want with your graphs, of course. But some things you might not have considered are:

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Anyone can use ERDDAPs Slide Sorter to build a personal web page that displays graphs with the latest data (or other images or HTML content), each in its own, draggable slide.

The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  Year {
    String long_name "Year";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  Site {
    String long_name "Site";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  depth {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Height";
    String _CoordinateZisPositive "down";
    Int32 actual_range 10, 10;
    String axis "Z";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Depth";
    String positive "down";
    String standard_name "depth";
    String units "m";
  }
  Quad {
    Int32 actual_range 1, 40;
    String long_name "Quad";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  Pocillopora {
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 92.1;
    String long_name "Pocillopora";
    String units "percent (%)";
  }
  All_stony_corals {
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 98.4;
    String long_name "All_stony_corals";
    String units "percent (%)";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "info@bco-dmo.org";
    String creator_name "BCO-DMO";
    String creator_url "https://www.bco-dmo.org/";
    String doi "10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.918265.1";
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_max 10.0;
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_min 10.0;
    String geospatial_vertical_positive "down";
    String geospatial_vertical_units "m";
    String history 
"2024-11-08T06:15:03Z (local files)
2024-11-08T06:15:03Z https://erddap.bco-dmo.org/tabledap/bcodmo_dataset_918265_v1.das";
    String infoUrl "https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/918265";
    String institution "BCO-DMO";
    String license 
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    String summary 
"Data Abstract:

These data describe the percentage cover of the benthos by live coral at 10 m depth at sites LTER1 and LTER2 in Moorea. 

Results paper abstract, Edmunds et al. (2023) :
* [See \"Related Datasets\" section for access to related datasets discussed here]

Understanding population dynamics is a long-standing objective of ecology, but the need for progress in this area has become urgent. For coral reefs, achieving this objective is impeded by a lack of information on settlement versus post-settlement events in determining recruitment and population size. Declines in coral abundance are often inferred to be associated with reduced densities of recruits, which could arise from mechanisms occurring at larval settlement, or throughout post-settlement stages. This study uses annual measurements from 2008 to 2021 of coral cover, the density of coral settlers (S), the density of small corals (SC), and environmental conditions, to evaluate the roles of settlement versus post-settlement events in determining rates of coral recruitment and changes in coral cover at Moorea, French Polynesia. Coral cover, S, SC, and the SC:S ratio (a proxy for post-settlement success), and environmental conditions, were used in generalized additive models (GAMs) to show that: (a) coral cover was more strongly related to SC and SC:S than S, and (b) SC:S was highest when preceded by cool seawater, low concentrations of Chlorophyll a, and low flow speeds, and S showed evidence of declining with elevated temperature. Together, these results suggest that changes in coral cover in Moorea are more strongly influenced by post-settlement events than settlement. The key to understanding coral community resilience may lie in elucidating the factors attenuating the bottleneck between settlers and small corals.";
    String title "[Edmunds et al. 2023 Oecologia: Coral Cover] - Percentage cover of the benthos by live coral at 10 m depth at sites in Moorea Moorea, French Polynesia from 2008 to 2021 (Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site)";
  }
}

Using tabledap to Request Data and Graphs from Tabular Datasets

tabledap lets you request a data subset, a graph, or a map from a tabular dataset (for example, buoy data), via a specially formed URL. tabledap uses the OPeNDAP (external link)

Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link)

and its selection constraints (external link)

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

(easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form or Subset form. They make the URL for you.
(easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
(not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by hand or with a computer program or script.

Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names, followed by a collection of constraints (e.g., variable<value), each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").

For details, see the tabledap Documentation.

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