Habitat Utilization by Burros in Virgin Islands National Park

1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Goigel Turner
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Habitat Utilization

U.S. Virgin Islands National Park:

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Jurowski ◽  
Muzaffer Uysal ◽  
Francis P. Noe
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands

Fecal Pellets used for the Determination of Habitat Utilization of Sambar (Rusa unicolor niger) in Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-356
Author(s):  
Muzaffar Ahmad Wani ◽  
Sanjay Telang ◽  
Saheel Ahmad Bhat ◽  
KHURSHEED AHMAD SHEIKH
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Habitat Utilization ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Fecal Pellets

scholarly journals Nocturnally swarming Caribbean polychaetes of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, USA

Zoosymposia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
NANCY K. PRENTISS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Park ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
United States Virgin Islands ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Lunar Phases ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Moon

Nocturnally swarming polychaetes were sampled over a ten-year period (2007–2017) in shallow waters of the Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, United States Virgin Islands. While sampling was qualitative and conducted over different years, months and lunar phases, some patterns were noted in the emergence of swarming polychaetes. Three families (Nereididae, Opheliidae, and Syllidae) had members that swarmed on most nights, while reproductive epitokes from two families appeared only during specific lunar phases: Goniadidae around the full moon and Phyllodocidae around the new moon. Additional polychaete families represented included Amphinomidae, Dorvilleidae, and Scalibregmatidae, whose members swarmed during the waning or waxing lunar phases. This overview offers new information about the timing of reproductive swarming in Caribbean polychaetes and suggests some connections between lunar phases and the swarming of different families.

Contaminants assessment in the coral reefs of Virgin Islands National Park and Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

2013 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Bargar ◽  
Virginia H. Garrison ◽  
David A. Alvarez ◽  
Kathy R. Echols
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
National Monument

Herpetofaunal community response to hurricanes Irma and Maria in Virgin Islands National Park

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Collin J. Richter ◽  
Samantha M. DiGiulio ◽  
Craig D. Marshall ◽  
Jill B.K. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
Climate Shifts ◽  
Hurricane Season ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Disturbances are critical for maintaining environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity across landscapes. Hurricanes represent a common disturbance in the Caribbean Sea. These storms are predicted to become more frequent and severe as climate shifts. Understanding how island communities respond to disturbances is critical to their conservation. We surveyed Virgin Islands National Park located on the island of St. John in the Caribbean Sea in 2016 and 2018 to evaluate prolonged herpetofauna community response and resistance to hurricanes. These surveys occurred in March 2016, and June 2018, before and after the 2017 hurricane season, when hurricanes Irma and Maria struck St. John. Using visual encounter surveys, vocalisation surveys, and opportunistic encounters, we surveyed trails within the park through five landscape cover types pre- and post-hurricane. We used linear regression to determine differences in diversity and species richness among landscape cover types and between pre- and post-hurricane surveys and non-metric multidimensional scaling to observe associations among species and landscape cover types pre- and post-hurricane surveys. We determined that there were no significant changes in landscape cover and herpetofauna community associations before and after the 2017 hurricane season, indicating that the herpetofauna communities of Virgin Islands National Park are well adapted to hurricane-related disturbance.

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