Dataset: LTR - Vermetid Counts
Deployment: Osenberg_et_al_Moorea

Long Term Reefs Vermetid Counts
Principal Investigator: 
Craig Osenberg (University of Georgia, UGA)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Thomas Frazer (University of Florida, UF)
International Collaborator: 
Jeffrey Shima (Victoria University of Wellington)
Contact: 
Craig Osenberg (University of Georgia, UGA)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Preliminary and in progress
Version: 
23 May 2016
Version Date: 
2016-05-23
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/645230/data

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Description

Vermetid gastropods were counted were calculated on the 192 reefs in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2014. Beginning in 2012, reefs 129-144 and 193-198 were manipulated for a project studying the effects of Vermetid removals; information pertaining to this manipulation can be found in the project “Spatial patterns of coral-vermetid interactions: short-term effects and long-term consequences”. All data collected on reefs 129-144 and 193-198 beginning in 2012 can also be found under that project. For each reef, the number of Ceraesignum maximum were counted. These data are meant to begin a census of the vermetids present in each site and on each reef to examine spatial and temporal variation in vermetid abundances.

Location: Moorea, French Polynesia (17.48 degrees S, 149.82 degrees W)

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