Dataset: Plot Gastropod Densities

Name: Densities of corallivorous gastropods in 36 cm × 36 cm plots on a fringing reef in Fiji
Published: 2019-02-22
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:-18.2057 E:177.6706 S:-18.2057 W:177.6706

Project:

Killer Seaweeds: Allelopathy against Fijian Corals (Killer Seaweeds)

Principal Investigator:

Mark Hay (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Cody Clements (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

Contact:

Cody Clements (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

Version Date:

2019-02-22

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Data not available

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/756631/data

Densities of corallivorous gastropods in 36 cm × 36 cm plots on a fringing reef in Fiji

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Description

We surveyed corals in each of our 48 plots for the presence of corallivorous gastropods (e.g. Drupella spp.).

These data are depicted in Supplemental Figure 5 of Clements and Hay (2019).

These data was also funded through:
National Institutes of Health (2 U19 TW007401-10)
Teasley Endowment to the Georgia Institute of Technology

Methods & Sampling

These are the raw count data, which were recorded in the field.

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
- appended the latitude and longitude coordinates to the data as supplied in the accompanying metadata

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0929119

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

Diving Mask and Snorkel

Supplied Name: snorkel

Supplied Description:

These data were collected near shore via snorkel.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Diving Mask and Snorkel

Generic Description:

A diving mask (also half mask, dive mask or scuba mask) is an item of diving equipment that allows underwater divers, including, scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers to see clearly underwater.

Snorkel: A breathing apparatus for swimmers and surface divers that allows swimming or continuous use of a face mask without lifting the head to breathe, consisting of a tube that curves out of the mouth and extends above the surface of the water.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Plot	The unique ID number of the plot	unitless	site
Treatment	The experimental treatment of the plot	unitless	treatment
Species	The species present within the plot. Polyculture plots contain all three species (Porites cylindrica; Pocillopora damicornis; Acropora millepora)	unitless	species
Density	The gastropod density within the plot; which is the number of gastropods divided by the number of corals within a plot (18).	number of gastropods divided by the number of corals	abundance
lat	latitude with North values positive; negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude with East values positive; negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
Abundance	The total number of gastropods observed on corals each plot	count per plot	abundance

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Dataset: Plot Gastropod Densities