Dataset: Tissue Mortality Month 4 and 16

Name: Percent tissue mortality of corals in experimental plots at month 4 and 16 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/756837/data

Percent tissue mortality of corals in experimental plots at month 4 and 16 on a fringing reef in Fiji.

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Description

Each coral in each plot was visually examined from all sides and the percentage tissue mortality
was estimated and assigned in 10% classes (0, 10 and 20% and so on, up to 100%).

These data are depicted in Figure 2b 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

To assess differences in percentage-tissue and whole-colony mortality at 16 months between conspecific corals in monocultures versus polycultures, we first separately averaged the percentage tissue and mortality of individual corals in each plot. Mean tissue and colony mortalities of conspecifics in monoculture and polyculture plots at each time point were then compared separately using Fisher– Pitman permutation tests (10,000 permutations) in the R (version 3.3.2) package 'coin' (version 1.2–2).

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
lat	latitude with North values positive; negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude with East values positive; negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
Tissue_Mortality_Month_16	The percent tissue mortality of the coral at month 16	percent	no_bcodmo_term
Tissue_Mortality_Month_4	The percent tissue mortality of the coral at month 4	percent	no_bcodmo_term
Plot	The unique ID number of the plot	unitless	site
ID	The unique ID number of corals within each plot.	unitless	sample
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

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Dataset: Tissue Mortality Month 4 and 16