Dataset: reef core shell lengths
Deployment: Kimbro_2011

Shell lengths from the collected reef core samples
Principal Investigator: 
David L. Kimbro (Northeastern University)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)
Contact: 
Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2015-04-01
Version Date: 
2015-04-01
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/555094/data

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Description

Oyster reef cages containing either bivalves, consumers or predators were set up along the southeastern US coast from N. Carolina to Florida. This dataset includes shell lengths of live and dead oysters in the planted reefs and the dead base shells.

Related Reference:

DL. Kimbro,JE. Byers,JH. Grabowski, AR. Hughes and MF. Piehler. The biogeography of trophic cascades on US oyster reefs (2014) Ecology Letters 17:845-854. doi: 10.1111/ele.12293.

Data is also available from the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB):
1. Cage Experiment Bivalve Data  http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat?action=read&qformat=knb&sessionid=0&docid=evanlpettis.101.15

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