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Data from surveys of Eunicea flexusa colonies on St. John, VI National Park from 2014.
2016-10-24
publication
2016-10-24
revision
Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)
2019-04-19
publication
https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.662377.1
Howard Lasker
State University of New York at Buffalo
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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Cite this dataset as: Lasker, H. (2016) Data from surveys of Eunicea flexusa colonies on St. John, VI National Park from 2014. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2016-10-24 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.662377.1 [access date]
Data from surveys of Eunicea flexusa colonies that were found in close proximity. Dataset Description: <p>Data supporting Gambrel, B. and Lasker, H.R., 2016</p> Methods and Sampling: <p><strong>Methodology</strong><strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;Gambrel, B. </strong><strong>and</strong><strong> Lasker, H.R., 2016</strong></p>
<p>Since physical effects of octocoral−octocoral proximity were common, we examined the physical effects on different species by comparing their interspecific interactions with 75 colonies of <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>. The choice of <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;was based on its abundance and on the reliability of identifying <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;colonies in the field. We sampled at East&nbsp;Cabritte, as the high octocoral density there led to a high incidence of interactions. We searched for <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;within the same 500 m2 area as the belt transects and selected colonies based on the presence of interspecific interactions. Tissue damage due to proximity between octocorals was categorized into first and second-degree damage. First-degree damage was defined as slight signs of abrasion including fewer polyps or retracted polyps in contact areas and lightly eroded calyces, whereas second-degree damage involved the erosion of the soft tissue past the surface layer, sometimes down to the proteinaceous skeleton. If an octocoral had branches exhibiting both first and second-degree damage, it was scored as having the more severe, second-degree damage. Colonies in close proximity were identified to species and were assessed for damage and asymmetry.&nbsp;Fisher’s exact tests of independence were used in R to test for the effect of the species pairing on damage type and the presence or absence of colony asymmetry.</p>
Funding provided by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) Award Number: OCE-1334052 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=1334052
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Howard Lasker
State University of New York at Buffalo
716-645-4870
Department of Geology 126 Cooke Hall
Buffalo
NY
14260-1350
USA
hlasker@buffalo.edu
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BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
Edmunds_StThomas
Edmunds_VINP
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St. Thomas, USVI
Great Lameshure Bay, St. John, US Virgin Island
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LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019
http://coralreefs.csun.edu/
LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019
<p><strong>Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) in US Virgin Islands:</strong></p>
<p><em>From the NSF award abstract:</em><br />
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
St. John LTREB
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Collaborative research: Ecology and functional biology of octocoral communities
http://coralreefs.csun.edu/
Collaborative research: Ecology and functional biology of octocoral communities
<p>The recent past has not been good for coral reefs, and journals have been filled with examples of declining coral cover, crashing fish populations, rising cover of macroalgae, and a future potentially filled with slime. However, reefs are more than the corals and fishes for which they are known best, and their biodiversity is affected strongly by other groups of organisms. The non-coral fauna of reefs is being neglected in the rush to evaluate the loss of corals and fishes, and this project will add on to an on-going long term ecological study by studying soft corals. This project will be focused on the ecology of soft corals on reefs in St. John, USVI to understand the Past, Present and the Future community structure of soft corals in a changing world. For the Past, the principal investigators will complete a retrospective analysis of octocoral abundance in St. John between 1992 and the present, as well as Caribbean-wide since the 1960's. For the Present, they will: (i) evaluate spatio-temporal changes between soft corals and corals, (ii) test for the role of competition with macroalgae and between soft corals and corals as processes driving the rising abundance of soft corals, and (iii) explore the role of soft corals as "animal forests" in modifying physical conditions beneath their canopy, thereby modulating recruitment dynamics. For the Future the project will conduct demographic analyses on key soft corals to evaluate annual variation in population processes and project populations into a future impacted by global climate change.</p>
<p>This project was funded to provide and independent "overlay" to the ongoing LTREB award (DEB-1350146, co-funded by OCE, PI Edmunds) focused on the long-term dynamics of coral reefs in St. John.</p>
<p>Note: This project is closely associated with the project "RAPID: Resilience of Caribbean octocorals following Hurricanes Irma and Maria". See: <a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/project/749653">https://www.bco-dmo.org/project/749653</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The following publications and data resulted from this project:</strong><br />
2017 Tsounis, G., and P. J. Edmunds. Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: a contrast of scleractinians and octocorals. Ecosphere 8(1):e01646. DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1646" target="_blank" title="Link to external resource: 10.1002/ecs2.1646">10.1002/ecs2.1646</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664254" target="_blank">Rainfall and temperature data</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664223" target="_blank">Coral and macroalgae abundance and distribution</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/664267" target="_blank">Descriptions of hurricanes affecting St. John</a></p>
<p>2016 Gambrel, B. and Lasker, H.R. Marine Ecology Progress Series 546: 85–95, DOI: <a href="http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v546/p85-95/" target="_blank">10.3354/meps11670</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662664" target="_blank">Colony to colony interactions</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662377" target="_blank">Eunicea</a><a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662377" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662377" target="_blank">flexuosa interactions</a><br />
<a href="http://Gorgonia ventalina asymmetry">Gorgonia </a><a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662645" target="_blank">ventalina</a><a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662645"> asymmetry</a><br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/662791" target="_blank">Nearest neighbor surveys</a></p>
<p>2015 Lenz EA, Bramanti L, Lasker HR, Edmunds PJ. Long-term variation of octocoral populations in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Coral Reefs DOI <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-015-1315-x" target="_blank">10.1007/s00338-015-1315-x</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/562570" target="_blank">octocoral survey - densities</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/562595" target="_blank">octocoral counts - photoquadrats vs. insitu survey</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/562618" target="_blank">octocoral literature review</a><br />
<a href="http://dmoserv3.whoi.edu/data_docs/St_John_LTREB/octocorals/Lenzetal_CR_MetaDataSTJ2015_BCODMO_2015-07-15.xls">Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)</a></p>
<p>2015 Privitera-Johnson, K., et al., Density-associated recruitment in octocoral communities in St. John, US Virgin Islands, J.Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2015.08.006" target="_blank">10.1016/j.jembe.2015.08.006</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/565056" target="_blank">octocoral density dependence</a><br />
<a href="http://dmoserv3.whoi.edu/data_docs/St_John_LTREB/octocorals/MetaData_KPJetal_JEMBE2015_STJ_Octocorals.xlsx">Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)</a></p>
<p>Other datasets related to this project:<br />
<a href="https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/682966" target="_blank">octocoral transects - adult colony height</a></p>
VI Octocorals
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St. Thomas, USVI; Great Lameshure Bay, St. John, US Virgin Island
-64.72988
-64.72187
18.31095
18.31685
2014-08-06
2014-08-14
From projects that focused on the following 2 locations: 1. St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands; California State University Northridge 2. St. John, US Virgin Islands: 18.3185, 64.7242
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Data from surveys of Eunicea flexusa colonies on St. John, VI National Park from 2014.
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
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USA
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662860.rdf
Name: date
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Date sampling occurred; mm/dd/yy</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662861.rdf
Name: location
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Site where sampling occurred</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662862.rdf
Name: lat
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Latitude; N is positive</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662863.rdf
Name: lon
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Longitude; W is positve</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662864.rdf
Name: species
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Species of coral that was sampled</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662865.rdf
Name: height
Units: centimeters
Description: <p>Height of each colony was measured to the nearest centimeter.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662866.rdf
Name: width
Units: centimeters
Description: <p>Width of each colony was measured to the nearest centimeter.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662867.rdf
Name: depth
Units: centimeters
Description: <p>Depth of each colony was measured to the nearest centimeter.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662868.rdf
Name: colonyEffect_0
Units: unitless
Description: <p>No apparent effect of colony interaction</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662869.rdf
Name: colonyEffect_1
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Slight abrasion from colony interaction</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662870.rdf
Name: colonyEffect_2
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Clear abrasion from colony interaction</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662871.rdf
Name: colonyEffect_3
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Other damage (swollen, misshaped, stunted branches etc.) from colony interaction</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/662872.rdf
Name: colonyEffect_4
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Asymmetrical growth from colony interaction</p>
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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<p><strong>Methodology</strong><strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;Gambrel, B. </strong><strong>and</strong><strong> Lasker, H.R., 2016</strong></p>
<p>Since physical effects of octocoral−octocoral proximity were common, we examined the physical effects on different species by comparing their interspecific interactions with 75 colonies of <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>. The choice of <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;was based on its abundance and on the reliability of identifying <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;colonies in the field. We sampled at East&nbsp;Cabritte, as the high octocoral density there led to a high incidence of interactions. We searched for <em>E.&nbsp;</em><em>flexuosa</em>&nbsp;within the same 500 m2 area as the belt transects and selected colonies based on the presence of interspecific interactions. Tissue damage due to proximity between octocorals was categorized into first and second-degree damage. First-degree damage was defined as slight signs of abrasion including fewer polyps or retracted polyps in contact areas and lightly eroded calyces, whereas second-degree damage involved the erosion of the soft tissue past the surface layer, sometimes down to the proteinaceous skeleton. If an octocoral had branches exhibiting both first and second-degree damage, it was scored as having the more severe, second-degree damage. Colonies in close proximity were identified to species and were assessed for damage and asymmetry.&nbsp;Fisher’s exact tests of independence were used in R to test for the effect of the species pairing on damage type and the presence or absence of colony asymmetry.</p>
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<p><strong>BCO-DMO Data Processing Notes:</strong></p>
<p>- filled blank cells with "nd"<br />
- replaced spaces with underscores<br />
- replaced species codes with full names<br />
- added latitudes and&nbsp;longitudes to data</p>
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Deployment: Edmunds_StThomas
Edmunds_StThomas
Virgin Islands
island
Edmunds_StThomas
Peter J. Edmunds
California State University Northridge
Deployment: Edmunds_VINP
Edmunds_VINP
Virgin Islands National Park
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Edmunds_VINP
Peter J. Edmunds
California State University Northridge
Virgin Islands
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