Dataset: brooded coral larvae 1 - size_July

Name: Brooded coral larval size from July 2010 experiment (Cumbo, 2012) Taiwan(MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)
Published: 2014-09-08
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:21.9382 E:120.746 S:21.9382 W:120.746

Project:

Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)

The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change (Climate_Coral_Larvae)

Program:

Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Principal Investigator:

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Scientist:

Dr Vivian R Cumbo (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

2014-09-08

Version Date:

2014-09-08

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Brooded coral larval size from July 2010 experiment (Cumbo, 2012) Taiwan(MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)

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Description

The physiological development of brooded larvae from the pocilloporid corals Pocillopora damicornis and Seriatopora caliendrum in southern Taiwan was examined.

These data include larval size from experiments conducted in July, 2010.

These data are published in Cumbo, VR, Fan TY, Edmunds PJ. (2012) Physiological development of brooded larvae from two pocilloporid corals in Taiwan. Marine Biology 159: 2853-2866. DOI 10.1007/s00227-012-2046-y. See Fig. 3a.

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Methods & Sampling

To determine the size in July, 2010, larvae were placed individually on a microscope slide in a drop of seawater and photographed using a digital camera fitted to a dissecting microscope. Larval area (mm^2) was measured using ImageJ 1.42q software (Abramoff et al. 2004), and mean larval area (n = 8) from each tank at each time point was used for statistical analysis.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO processing notes:

- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date, reference information
- added lab, lat, lon, expt columns
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard

Data Files

File
brood_size_july.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 40.75 KB) MD5:d3a12c0f28da26457c877d269e7f79a8 Primary data file for dataset ID 528761

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0844785

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_Edmunds_NMMBA		2010-03-18	Natl Museum Mar. Bio. and Aquar. Taiwan	Peter J. Edmunds (Lead Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

Camera

Supplied Name: camera

Supplied Description:

digital camera fitted to dissecting microscope

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Camera

Acronym: camera

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/

Generic Description:

All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
expt	experiment id	unitless	exp_id
lab	laboratory	unitless	laboratory
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
species	coral species name	unitless	species
date	local date of measurement	yyyy-mm-dd	date
release	larval release relative to full moon: early peak late; N_A = not applicable	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
lunar_day	lunar day of measurement	integer	day
sample	replicate number	integer	sample
image_id	image file name	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
larval_size	larval size as measured by area	mm^2	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: brooded coral larvae 1 - size_July