Coral Time-Series Data from St John and St Thomas Islands

Data available for download, subject to the Data Use Agreement. Some data packages appear in both wide and long format.

Dataset Title
 Years Associated Manuscript Spatial Scale Data Table Table Title Data Download
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Scleractinian corals 1987-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Percent Cover – Tektite and Yawzi data and metdata
2 Percent cover – Random Sites
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Recruitment Tiles 2009-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Recruit Spat Counts data and metadata
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Reference: Geography 1987-Present Not Applicable Not Applicable 1 Site Locations data and metadata
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Reference: Taxonomy 1987-Present Not Applicable Not Applicable 1 Taxa and Functional Groups data and metadata
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Juvenile coral 1994-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Juvenile Coral Counts data and metadata
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Physical measurements 1999-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Yawzi Water Temperature – Daily Average data and metadata
2 Yawzi Water Temperature – 15 and 30 minute intervals
3 Average Monthly Rainfall
4 Light Intensity – Daily
5 Light Intensity – 5 min
6 Light Intensity – 30 sec
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Decadal-scale changes in community structure from 1987 to 2011 1987-2011
DOI
 Local 1 Data for Fig 1A, Edmunds 2013 MEPS data and metadata
2 Data for Fig 1B
3 Data for Fig 1C
4 Data for Fig 2
5 Data for Fig 2 Supplementary
6 Data for Fig 3 and 4
7 Data for Fig 3 Supplementary
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Landscape-scale Variation in Scleractinian Corals 1987-Present Not Available Landscape 1 Percent Cover – Landscape-scale sites data and metadata
Virgin Islands National Park: Population Dynamics of Diadema antillarum 1987-Present
DOI to Manuscript
 Local 1 Data for Fig 1A data and metadata
2 Data for Fig 1B
3 Data for Fig 1C
4 Data for Fig 2
5 Data for Fig 3A
6 Data for Fig 3B
7 Data for Fig 3C
8 Data for Fig 4AB
9 Data for Fig 4CD
10 Data for Fig 5A
11 Data for Fig 5B
12 Long-term Diadema Density
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Populations Dynamics: Population Projections 1988-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Fig 2 Coral Cover data and metadata
2 Fig 2 Population Density
3 Fig 2 Population Size
4 Fig 2 Stats Contrast
5 Fig 3 Juvenile Density
6 Fig 4 Fission and Fusion
7 Fig 5 Mortality
8 Fig 7 Population Growth
9 Fig 6 Projections
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Octocorals 1987-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Octocoral Count at Tektite and Yawzi – Long Format data and metadata
2 Octocoral Count at Tektite and Yawzi – Wide Format
3 Octocoral Count at Random Sites – Long Format
4 Octocoral Count at Random Sites – Wide Format
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Yawzi Video Transects 1989-Present
DOI
 Local 1 Yawzi Point Video Transects data and metadata
 

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