Dataset: focal clusters
Deployment: Kimbro_2011

Counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters
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)
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2015-04-01
Version Date: 
2015-04-01
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 counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters

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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