Dataset: focal clusters

Name: Counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters from the oyster reefs along Southeastern Atlantic Bight (SAB) from North Carolina to Florida in 2011 (Oyster Trophic Cascades project)
Published: 2015-04-01
Keywords: biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

The influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale (Oyster_Trophic_Cascades)

Principal Investigator:

David L. Kimbro (Northeastern University)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

Contact:

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

2015-04-01

Version Date:

2015-04-01

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters from the oyster reefs along Southeastern Atlantic Bight (SAB) from North Carolina to Florida in 2011 (Oyster Trophic Cascades project)

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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 shell counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters

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

Data Files

File
focal_clusters.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 16.37 KB) MD5:261c2b9f80fb295b76bc13b47bd2c1b0 Primary data file for dataset ID 555104

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1338372
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961633
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961853
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1203859
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961741

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Kimbro_2011		2011-06-02	Oyster_Reefs_SE-US	David L. Kimbro (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	Experimental study site/estuary within each region; Two sites per region	unitless	site
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
cage	ID number of caging enclosure	unitless	sample
treatment	Experimental treatment	unitless	treatment
subcage_phantom	Indicates whether clam was planted in a subcaged or phantom caged location	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
position	Position at which individual clam was assigned within the cage	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
tag	Tag on clam	unitless	tagid
wgt_init	Initial mass of cluster	gram	weight
num_live_init	Initial number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_gapers_init	Initial number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_spat_init	Initial number spat on cluster (<25mm)	unit	count
wgt_final	Final mass of recovered cluster (NR indicates the cluster was not recovered). Note that FL had only a very coarse spring scale for measuring final mass so there may be rounding error.	gram	weight
num_live_final	Final number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_gapers_final	Final number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_spat_final	Final number spat on cluster (<25mm)	unit	count
comment	Additional notes	unitless	comment

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Dataset: focal clusters