Dataset: Plot Macroalgal Cover Month 4

Name: Macroalgal cover at month 4 in experimental plots on a fringing reef in Fiji.
Published: 2019-02-25
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:-18.2057 E:177.67 S:-18.2057 W:177.67

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:

2019-02-25

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Data not available

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/756776/data

Macroalgal cover at month 4 in experimental plots on a fringing reef in Fiji.

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Description

To assess plot colonization by benthic macroalgae at 4 months, photographs of each plot were analysed for the percentage cover of macroalgae using ImageJ (version 1.8.0_121).

These data are depicted in Figure 2c 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

Macroalgal colonization of polycultures and monocultures of each species at 4 months were compared with ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc tests using a permutation approach (5,000 permutations) in the R (version 3.3.2) package lmPerm (version 2.1.0).

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

Camera

Supplied Name: Canon Powershot D30

Supplied Description:

To assess plot colonization by benthic macroalgae at 4 months, photographs of each plot were analysed for the percentage cover of macroalgae using ImageJ (version 1.8.0_121).

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.

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
lat	latitude with North values positive; negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude with East values positive; negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
Cover	The percent macroalgal cover within the plot	percent	percent_cover
Plot	The unique ID number of the plot	unitless	site
Species	The species present within the plot. Polyculture plots contain all three species (Porites cylindrica; Pocillopora damicornis; Acropora millepora)	unitless	species
Treatment	The experimental treatment of the plot	unitless	treatment

Database

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Dataset: Plot Macroalgal Cover Month 4