Octocoral colony density by pooled taxa, site, and quadrat from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017

Octocoral community NMDS from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017. These data were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019) Figure 3, Community non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). Related Datasets: all were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019): * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 1a: Density pooled taxa and one year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789128 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 1b: Height pooled taxa and one year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789140 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 2a: Density by taxon and year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789145 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 2b: Height by taxon and year https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789149 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig 3: Community NMDS https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789181 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S1: Sampling effort https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789188 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S3: Sampling effort, juveniles https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789195 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S4: Colony sizes https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789202 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S5a: Density https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789210 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 Fig S5b: Height https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789217