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

Octocoral colony density pooled by taxon and year from surveys conducted in St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2014 to 2017. These data were used in Edmunds and Lasker (2019) Figure 2. 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本数据集涵盖2014至2017年在美属维尔京群岛圣约翰岛开展的调查数据，按分类群与年份合并统计了八放珊瑚（Octocoral）群体密度。该数据已被用于Edmunds与Lasker（2019）的图2。 相关数据集：所有数据集均被应用于Edmunds和Lasker（2019）的研究： * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图1a：按单一年份合并分类群的密度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789128 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图1b：按单一年份合并分类群的高度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789140 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图2a：按分类群与年份划分的密度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789145 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图2b：按分类群与年份划分的高度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789149 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图3：群落非度量多维标度（NMDS） https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789181 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图S1：采样强度 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789188 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图S3：幼体采样强度 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789195 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图S4：群体尺寸数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789202 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图S5a：密度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789210 * Edmunds and Lasker MEPS 2019 图S5b：高度数据 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789217