Dataset: coral growth 2016-2018

Name: Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama from spring 2016 - spring 2018
Published: 2018-10-05
Keywords: Panama, pocillopora, coral growth, biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.747484.1

Spatial Extent: N:8.6312 E:-79.0283 S:7.4033 W:-81.759

Temporal Extent: 2016-03 - 2018-03

Project:

Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Mesoscale Oceanography, and the Dynamics of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs (Coral Climate ETP)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Richard B. Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology, FIT)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr James J. Leichter (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)

Dr Lauren T. Toth (United States Geological Survey, USGS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2018-10-05

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama from spring 2016 - spring 2018

Abstract:

Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama from spring 2016 - spring 2018.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2018-10-05	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.747484.1	2019-09-12

Description

Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama between March 2016 and March 2018.

Methods & Sampling

Fragments of Pocillopora were collected from the reef and epoxied to PVC discs. The corals were photographed and the buoyant weight was measured for the “initial” time. The corals were returned to the reef for approximately six months and collected again. They were photographed and the buoyant weight was measured for the “final” time. In the lab, the initial and final surface areas were measured from photographs taken looking down onto the corals by digitally tracing the outlines of the colonies using the software package iSolution.

See related data for 2018-2019 coral growth: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/776346.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions

Data Files

File
coral_growth.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 16.52 KB) MD5:b89e140e5e79c3cf9885833fafb1fa47 Primary data file for dataset ID 747484

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535007
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535203

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

Camera

Supplied Name: photographed

Supplied Description:

The corals were photographed and the buoyant weight was measured for the “initial” time.

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.

scale

Supplied Name: weight

Supplied Description:

buoyant weight was measured

Instrument Type

Generic Name: scale

Acronym: balance

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB13/

Generic Description:

An instrument used to measure weight or mass.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Gulf	Location where each coral was collected.	unitless	region
Site	Location within Gulf where coral was collected.	unitless	site
Latitude	latitude where each coral was collected in decimal degrees north	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude where each coral was collected in decimal degrees east	decimal degrees	lon
GrowthPeriod	Time period coral was growing on the reef. S16_F16 (March 2016–September 2016); F16_S17 (September 2016–March 2017); S17_F17 (March 2017–September 2017); F17_S18 (September 2017–March 2018).	unitless	sample_descrip
CoralID	coral identifying number	unitless	sample
InitialHeight_Perp	perpendicular height at the first time period.	millimeters (mm)	height
InitialHeight_Long	Longitudinal height at the first time period	millimeters (mm)	height
FinalHeight_Perp	Perpendicular height at the final time period	millimeters (mm)	height
FinalHeight_Long	Longitudinal height at the last time period	millimeters (mm)	height
ChangeHeight_Perp	Change in perpendicular height between time periods	millimeters (mm)	height
ChangeHeight_Long	Change in longitudinal height between time periods	millimeters (mm)	height
Initial_surface_area	Surface area at the first time period	square centimeters (cm2)	surface_area
Final_surface_area	Surface area at the final time period	square centimeters (cm2)	surface_area
InitialMass	Mass at the first time period	grams (g)	mass
FinalMass	Mass at the final time period	grams (g)	mass
ChangeMass	Change in mass between time periods	grams (g)	mass
InitialFieldHeight	Height at the first time period measured in the field	millimeters (mm)	height
FinalFieldHeight	Height at the final time period measured in the field	millimeters (mm)	height
ChangeFieldHeight	Change in height between the time periods measured in the field	millimeters (mm)	height
Diff_InitH_FieldvPic	Difference in height between field measurements and photos at the first time period	millimeters (mm)	height
Diff_FinH_FieldvPic	Difference in height between field measurements and photos at the final time period	millimeters (mm)	height
Diff_Change_FieldvPic	Difference in change in height between field measurements and photos	millimeters (mm)	height
Notes	Additional notes about the sample	unitless	comment
UIN	Unique Identifying Number	unitless	sample
Time	numerical growth period.	unitless	no_bcodmo_term