Figure 1
From: Fertile fathoms: Deep reproductive refugia for threatened shallow corals
The northern US Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. John.
Considerable mesophotic habitat (30–150 m) exists on the broad insular platform and well-mapped linear coral habitat exists on submerged banks near the shelf edge south of St. Thomas11,13,14. Sample sites from 2010 (gray) ranged in depth from 6–43 m. In 2011 a subset of 2010 sites were visited weekly for five weeks bracketing spawning in August: Black Point (5–10 m), Flat Cay (15–22 m) and Grammanik Bank (35–40 m). Map created using ArcGIS 10.
