Dataset: octocoral survey - densities
Deployment: Edmunds_VINP

soft coral densities (colonies m-2) counted from photoquadrats archived from LTREB efforts at the "pooled random sites"
Principal Investigator: 
Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSU-Northridge)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Howard Lasker (State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo)
Scientist: 
Dr Lorenzo Bramanti (California State University Northridge, CSU-Northridge)
Student: 
Dr Elizabeth Lenz (California State University Northridge, CSU-Northridge)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Preliminary and in progress
Version: 
2015-07-17
Version Date: 
2015-07-17
Description

Photoquadrats from St. John, USVI, were used to assess the abundance of soft corals from 6 sites on shallow reefs of St. John, USVI from 1992-2012.

Data used in Lenz et al., 2015

Original submitted excel file in data file section.

 

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