Dataset: artificial and transplant reef census

Name: Counts of small reef fishes taken by census at artificial and transplant reefs at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas in 2010 (Lionfish Invasion project)
Published: 2013-05-29
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:23.75047 E:-76.14035 S:23.75047 W:-76.14035

Project:

Ecological Release and Resistance at Sea: Invasion of Atlantic Coral Reefs by Pacific Lionfish (Lionfish Invasion)

Lead Principal Investigator:

Mark Hixon (Oregon State University, OSU)

Scientist:

Timothy J Pusack (Oregon State University, OSU)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

29 May 2013

Version Date:

2013-05-29

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Counts of small reef fishes taken by census at artificial and transplant reefs at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas in 2010 (Lionfish Invasion project)

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Description

The investigators examined the interactions between invasive lionfish and native Nassau grouper using both a manipulative field study and a controlled lab experiment. This dataset, resulting from the field study, contains counts of small reef fishes (< 50 mm) on the artificial and transplant reefs where the abundances of Nassau grouper were controlled.

Related Datasets from sub-project "Interactions between native Nassau grouper and invasive lionfish":
lionfish growth
grouper-lionfish refuge competition expt

Related Publications:
Pusack, TJ. Submitted. Evidence of bioltic resistance: native Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) mitigate predator effects of invasive Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic coral reefs. Ecological Applications.

Raymond WW, MA Albins, and TJ Pusack. In Review. Shelter competition between invasive Pacific red lionfish Pterois volitans) and native Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Methods & Sampling

During the summer of 2010, the investigators manipulated the abundance of Nassau grouper on 28 near-shore patch reefs and measured the growth and survival of juvenile (20-140 mm) lionfish. They also censused the community of small reef fishes (< 50 mm) to look for evidence of indirect effects that grouper might have mediated through lionfish.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
- Modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Replaced blanks with 'nd' ('no data') in the time_start, time_end, phase, non_fish_abund, and notes column.
- Replaced blanks with zeroes in the size bins.
- Transposed size bins to rows in lowest level of data.
- Added lat and lon from the metadata provided.
- 09-Jan-2018: removed embargo on dataset.

Data Files

File
art_and_trans_reef_census.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 9.21 MB) MD5:88147bcacb03aae5a1af9f60d098a859 Primary data file for dataset ID 3954

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0851162

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
LSI_Reef_Surveys_09-12		2009-05-30	Tropical Marine Lab at Lee Stocking Island	Mark Hixon (Lead Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site	Name of the site.	text	site
lat_site	Latitude of the site.	decimal degrees	lat
lon_site	Longitude of the site.	decimal degrees	lon
treatment	Indicates whether the survey was a Baseline (no treatment) or the number of Nassau grouper present on the reef. EPST = Nassau grouper.	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
location	Indicates the specfic patch reef in the matrix.	text	site_descrip
reef_type	Indicates whether the reef was an artifical reef (ART) 1 m^3 concrete block or a translocated reef (TRANS) 3.5 m^2.	text	no_bcodmo_term
day	2-digit day-of-month of survey.	dd (01 to 31)	day
month	2-digit month of survey.	mm (01 to 12)	month
year	4-digit year of survey.	YYYY	year
time_start	Beginning time of the survey; 24-hour time.	HHMM	time_start
time_end	Ending time of the survey; 24-hour time.	HHMM	time_end
census_type	Indicates whether a full census of all reef fish or a recruit only census of fish	text	no_bcodmo_term
person1	Identity of primary observer (TP = Timothy Pusack)	text	person
person2	Identity of secondary observer (WR = Wendel Raymond; JL = Julia Lawson; CK = Courtney Kewl; TG = Tiffany Gray; KI = Kurt Ingeman)	text	person
species_code	4-letter genus species code (typically first two letters are the first two of the genus and last two letters are the first two of the species). See the Species list to match the code to the full scientific name.	code	taxon_code
phase	N = juvenile or intermediate or fish without distinct post-settlement life stages; T = terminal phase.	text	stage
non_fish_abund	0 if species is a fish. Otherwise count of specific invertebrate on particular subsample.	integer	count
notes	Notes associated with a particular observation. May refer to data entry related or QA/QC related notes.	text	comment
lenbin_min	Minimum of length bin range (centimeters).	cm	lenbin_min
lenbin_max	Maximum of length bin range (centimeters).	cm	lenbin_max
count	Count of a particular species falling into the size bin.	integer	count

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Dataset: artificial and transplant reef census