Height and density data for marine animal forest forming species

Data file (.csv) of values of height and density for marine animal forest (MAF) forming species collected from the literature. Fields are for discrete observations: Species Species name Santavy Morphology class using categories in Santavy DL, Lee A. Courtney, William S. Fisher, Robert L. Quarles, Stephen J. Jordan (2013) Estimating surface area of sponges and gorgonians as indicators of habitat availability on Caribbean coral reefs. Hydrobiologia 707:1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1359-7 Height Mean colony height (cm) Density Mean colony density m-2 Btemp Average bottom temperature for species based on OBIS records (K) Depth Average depth for species based on OBIS records (m) Phylum Taxonomy Class Taxonomy Order Taxonomy Family Taxonomy Genus Taxonomy Source Publication source for data Title Publication title DOI/link DOI for source data