Summary sponge abundance by species and site on the coral reefs of St. John USVI from photoquadrats taken between 1992 and 2017

Dataset: Summary sponge abundance by species and site on the coral reefs of St. John USVI 1992-2017Abundance of sponges (on both density scale – number per quadrat – and volume scale – estimated volume per quadrat) for three sites over time on the shallow coral reefs of St. John from 1992-2017. Data support Figure S2 in the paper published in Marine Biology (Edumunds et al., 2020). 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/819479NSF Division of Environmental Biology (NSF DEB) DEB-1350146, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-175667