Dataset: Whelk size distributions: individuals
Deployment: Menge_2014

Whelk sizes measured from 4 sites relative to tidal elevation from coastal Oregon, 2014-2015
Principal Investigator: 
Bruce A. Menge (Oregon State University, OSU)
Student: 
Elizabeth B. Cerny-Chipman (Oregon State University, OSU)
Jenna M. Sullivan (Oregon State University, OSU)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version Date: 
2016-08-11
Description

Data are from surveys in July 2014 and 2015 of whelk size distributions. Whelks were measured from apex to bottom of siphonal canal at 4 sites in haphazard quadrats until ~200 individuals of each species were measured. This sheet is the lengths of each individual whelk measured (i.e., each row is one whelk). 

Related Reference:

Elizabeth B. Cerny-Chipman, Jenna M. Sullivan, and Bruce A. Menge. Whelk predators exhibit limited population responses and community effects following disease-driven declines of the keystone sea star Pisaster ochraceus. In Revision: MEPS.

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