Dataset: spat tiles
Deployment: Kimbro_2011

Abundance of live and dead spat and recruitment in cage experiment

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:

The influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale (Oyster_Trophic_Cascades)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

2015-04-01

Version Date:

2015-04-01

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/554993/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 the number of live and dead oyster spat and live/dead recruits on tiles within the cages.

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

Methods & Sampling

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0961633	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-0961741	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-0961853	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1203859	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1338372	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site	Experimental study site/estuary within each region; Two sites per region	unitless	site
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
cage	ID number of caging enclosure	unitless	sample
treatment	Experimental treatment	unitless	treatment
subcage_phantom	Indicates whether clam was planted in a subcaged or phantom caged location	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
position	Position at which individual clam was assigned within the cage	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
tile_batch	Indicates which batch (round) of deployment the tile was a part of	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
tile	Assigned tile ID #	unitless	sample
date_checked	Date on which tile was checked and processed	yyyy-mm-dd	date
days_deployed	Number of days elapsed between deployment and check	days	days
num_live_spat	Number of live spat on tile	spat	count
num_dead_spat	Number of dead spat on tile	spat	count
num_live_recruits	Number of live recruited spat on tile	recruits	count
num_dead_recruits	Number of dead recruited spat on tile	recruits	count
comment	Additional notes	unitless	comment

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Dataset: spat tiles
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Dataset: spat tiles
Deployment: Kimbro_2011