Dataset: Prey percent covers
Deployment: Menge_2014

Prey percent cover raw data
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 experiment measuring sessile community structure with and without whelk and Leptasterias predators following SSWD. Experiment was run at two sites from June 2014 to May 2015. Data here are from photographic analysis of prey community for 4 time points.

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.

Related Datasets:
Predator removals
Whelk size distributions: counts
Whelk size distributions: individuals
Whelk surveys

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