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U.S. Virgin Islands National Park Coral Transplant Study, St. John, 1999-2009 (NCEI Accession 0112724)
In a pilot project in the Caribbean (Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands), storm-produced fragments of Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis, and Porites porites were collected from donor reefs and transplanted to nearby degraded reefs. Sixty coral fragments were attached to dead-coral substrate (usually upright Acropora palmata skeletons), at similar depths from which they had been collected (1 to 3.5 m), using nylon cable ties. Seventy-five intact colonies were designated as reference colonies. Study colonies were assessed at 6-month intervals for 2 years (1999-2001) and annually thereafter (through 2009). The primary research objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using storm-produced coral fragments as the source of coral transplants to enhance degraded reefs.
Original data are in MS-Excel spreadsheet format with a species list in .doc format and Federal Geographic Data Committee format (FGDC) metadata as an .xml file.
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nodc:0112724 |
| issued | 2025-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact |
| language | [] |
| references |
[ "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.020" ] |
| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | -64.727714,18.347164,-64.788836,18.369267 |
| temporal | 1999-05-26T00:00:00+00:00/2009-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 |
