Dataset: extra clusters

Name: Counts of live and dead adults, and number of spat in additional oyster 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:

James E. Byers (University of Georgia, UGA)

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

A. Randall Hughes (Northeastern University)

Michael F. Piehler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill-IMS)

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 of live and dead adults, and number of spat in additional oyster 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 counts of live and dead adults, and the number of spat in additional oyster 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
extra_clusters.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.59 KB) MD5:46c31d5ae45ed2f31c242bf60d459cf9 Primary data file for dataset ID 555163

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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
edge_interior	Whether clusters were collected from the edge of the reef or near the center	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
wgt_total	Aggregate mass of all 4 edge or interior clusters collected from that cage	kilogram	weight
num_spat_total	Total number of spat found on all clusters (<25mm)	unit	count
num_live	Total number of live adult oysters on all clusters (>25mm)	unit	count
num_dead	Total number of dead adult oysters on all clusters (>25mm). Includes gapers and whole bottom valves.	unit	count
comment	Additional notes	unitless	comment

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Dataset: extra clusters