Dataset: MWS lesion progression

Name: Laboratory results on the rate of tissue loss in corals with Montipora White Syndrome with exposure to temperature and nutrient stressors; samples collected in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii during 2014
Published: 2014-08-28
Keywords: biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

Host-environment-pathogen interactions in a model coral disease system (coral-pathogen interaction)

Principal Investigator:

Greta Aeby (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, SOEST)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Sean Callahan (University of Hawai'i, UH)

Evelyn Cox (University of Hawai'i, UH)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

2014-08-28

Version Date:

2014-08-28

Restricted:

Yes

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Laboratory results on the rate of tissue loss in corals with Montipora White Syndrome with exposure to temperature and nutrient stressors; samples collected in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii during 2014

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Description

Measurement of the rate of tissue loss on coral fragments exposed to elevated temperatures and nutrients.

Access to this dataset is restricted until publication, approximately July 2016.
This data was made public on 2017-09-25.

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Montipora antibacterial-mucus
Montipora antibacterial-organic
Montipora chemical fingerprints
MWS accession numbers

Methods & Sampling

Coral fragments displaying cMWS were collected off reefs on Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. A paired designed was used whereby one fragment was exposed to a stressor in aquaria and 2nd fragment from the same coral colony exposed to ambient conditions as a control. Three experiments were run testing the effect of stressors on the rate of tissue loss on fragments: elevated temperature (28C vs. 25C), nutrient stress (ambient water vs. 10MM nitrate) and combined elevated temperature x nitrate. Photographs of all fragments were taken weekly and tissue loss measured via digital analysis.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard or to match other datasets in project
- replaced blanks with underscores

Data Files

File
tissue_loss.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 5.61 KB) MD5:66416ae1d2574f108f3ab91141c80e13 Primary data file for dataset ID 544910

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961814

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Aeby_2014		2010-06-01	Hawaii_reef	Greta Aeby (Principal Investigator) Deborah J. Gochfeld (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
coral	coral fragment identification	unitless	sample
treatment	control or experimental	unitless	treatment
color_morph	color morph of coral	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
expt_id	elevated temperature or nutrients or both	unitless	exp_id
tissue_loss	average % tissue loss/day	percent change/day	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: MWS lesion progression