Dataset: live reef bushel weight
Deployment: Kimbro_2011

Bushel weight for the live oysters used to construct the reef
Principal Investigator: 
David L. Kimbro (Northeastern University)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
James E. Byers (University of Georgia, UGA)
Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)
A. Randall Hughes (Northeastern University)
Michael F. Piehler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill-IMS)
Contact: 
Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2015-04-01
Version Date: 
2015-04-01
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/555228/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 bushel weights for the live oysters used to construct the reef.

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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