Coral cover, density, and recruits averages per site in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2007-2016

Abstract

This study was carried out on shallow reefs along the south coast of St. John, which have been monitored since 1987, and studied since the 1950s. Three aspects of the time-series analyses are utilized, and the study period exploited concurrent sampling of coral cover, coral recruitment, and the dynamics of small corals (colonies ≤ 40-mm diameter). These aspects of community structure were studied at 5–6 sites at 5–9-m depth between Cabritte Horn and White Point.

For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/750740