Dataset: Sponge abundance by species on the coral reefs of St. John USVI from photoquadrats taken between 1992 and 2017

Sponge abundances on the shallow coral reefs of St. John from 1992-2017. Data were extracted from legacy photoquadrats that are part of an ongoing time series, and sponge abundances were expressed as number per quadrat (“Abundance”). Data are presented by taxon, and support Table 1, Figure 4, 5 and S1 in the paper published in Marine Biology (Edumunds et al., 2020).

Other datasets from Edmunds et al. (2020) are listed on the page https://www.bco-dmo.org/related-resource/819411.