Dataset: Growth and mortality

Name: Growth and mortality of corals on long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.
Published: 2018-05-17
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.735097.1

Spatial Extent: N:18.32 E:-64.723 S:18.32 W:-64.723

Temporal Extent: 1996 - 2016

Project:

LTREB Long-term coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 1987-2019 (St. John LTREB)

RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019 (RUI-LTREB)

Principal Investigator:

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Hannah Ake (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2018-05-17

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Growth and mortality of corals on long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.

Abstract:

Growth and mortality of corals on long-term monitoring sites in St. John, USVI.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2018-05-17	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.735097.1	2019-03-25

Description

Data published in Ecology paper entitled “Intraspecific variation in growth rate is a poor predictor of fitness for reef corals”.

Methods & Sampling

Methods in paper (Edmunds 2017).

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

- filled in blank cells with nd
- sorted by species
- added column names tag_number and coral_taxon
- replaced - with _ in column names

Data Files

File
growth_mortality.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 127.46 KB) MD5:4303007d8fbad314023a491f70d93a0b Primary data file for dataset ID 735097

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Environmental Biology	DEB-0841441
NSF Division of Environmental Biology	DEB-1350146

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Edmunds_VINP		1987-01-01	Virgin Islands National Park	Peter J. Edmunds (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
tag_number	Coral tag number	unitless	sample
coral_taxon	Coral taxon	unitless	taxon
years_1996_1997	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_1997_1998	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_1998_1999	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_1999_2000	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2000_2001	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2001_2002	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2002_2003	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2003_2003	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2004_2005	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2005_2006	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2006_2007	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2007_2008	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2008_2009	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2009_2010	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2010_2011	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2011_2012	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2012_2013	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2013_2014	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth
years_2014_2015	Pair of years over which growth or death were recorded	millimeter per year	growth