Dataset: Purple urchin density
Deployment: CalifCoast_Gaylord_CHIPS

Density of purple sea urchins along the California coast, 37.8 to 39.3 N
Principal Investigator: 
Brian Gaylord (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Michael N. Dawson (University of California-Merced, UC Merced)
Richard K. Grosberg (University of California-Davis, UC Davis)
Student: 
Laura J. Jurgens (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)
Lauren Schiebelhut (University of California-Merced, UC Merced)
Contact: 
Laura J. Jurgens (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)
Lauren Schiebelhut (University of California-Merced, UC Merced)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2014-12-20
Version Date: 
2014-12-20
Description

Twenty accessible rocky intertidal sites were selected to span the ‘kill-zone’ and peripheral locations (see list of sites in Jurgens et al. submitted). Two rocky intertidal areas were sampled per site, usually one on either side of the point of entry onto the beach and separated by approximately 100 m. We used quadrats (1m^2 [4 * 0.25 m^2] or 0.0625 m^2) and swaths (2 m wide transects) to estimate juvenile and adult abundance for each target species.

This data set includes abundances of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (purple sea urchin) and their burrows on transects along the California coast from 37.9 N to 39.3 N.

Access Restriction: Access to these data are restricted until publication of the associated manuscript, which is currently in review at PLOS ONE. [2015-02-05]

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