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2024-02-12
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Coral tissue mortality in sand patches with vs. without sea cucumber removal in lagoonal habitat of Mo’orea, French Polynesia from June to August of 2021 (Coral Biodiversity project)
2024-02-12
publication
2024-02-12
revision
Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)
2024-03-19
publication
https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.920201.1
Cody Clements
Georgia Institute of Technology
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
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Woods Hole
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USA
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Cite this dataset as: Clements, C. (2024) Coral tissue mortality in sand patches with vs. without sea cucumber removal in lagoonal habitat of Mo’orea, French Polynesia from June to August of 2021 (Coral Biodiversity project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2024-02-12 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.920201.1 [access date]
Methods and Sampling: <p>At the initiation of the experiment, sea cucumbers were removed daily (removals) or left in place (controls) for seven days to condition sand patches for subsequent coral planting, after which five&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;outplants approximately 8-10 cm in length were embedded in the sediment of each patch, with % coral tissue mortality and outplant survival monitored at approximately 2-day intervals for 45 days (50 corals treatment-1, 100 corals total). The corals were initially fragmented from numerous&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;thickets adjacent to our study area, individually embedded within the cutoff necks of inverted plastic bottles using Z-Spar Splash Zone epoxy(see 56) and screwed into upturned bottle caps attached to ~7 x 7cm pieces of metal gridded mesh that could be slid into the sediment to hold each coral upright. To prevent feeding by coral consumers, each coral was caged within 1 cm2 metal screening. Corals were embedded within their sand patches so that living basal coral tissue was in direct contact with the sediment as would occur following natural fragmentation. Every other day for 45 days, we counted sea cucumbers, maintained removal treatments, cleaned cages, and quantified&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;tissue mortality in each patch.<br />
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To prevent feeding by coral consumers, each coral was caged within 1 cm2 metal screening. Corals were embedded within their sand patches so that living basal coral tissue was in direct contact with the sediment as would occur following natural fragmentation. Every other day for 45 days, we counted sea cucumbers, maintained removal treatments, cleaned cages, and quantified A. pulchra tissue mortality in each patch.</p>
Funding provided by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) Award Number: OCE-1947522 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=1947522
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Cody Clements
Georgia Institute of Technology
423-509-7943
cclements9@gatech.edu
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Treatment
Censor_Days
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Mortality_Percentage
Latitude
Longitude
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latitude
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Positive Effects of Coral Biodiversity on Coral Performance: Patterns, Processes, and Dynamics
https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/837802
Positive Effects of Coral Biodiversity on Coral Performance: Patterns, Processes, and Dynamics
<p><em>NSF Award Abstract:</em><strong> </strong><br />
Coral reefs are extremely diverse, supply critical ecosystem services, and are collapsing at an alarming rate, with 80% coral loss in the Caribbean and >50% in the Pacific in recent decades. Previous studies emphasized negative interactions (competition, predation) as structuring reef systems, but positive interactions in such species-rich systems could be of equal importance in maintaining ecosystem function. If foundation species like corals depend on positive interactions, then their fitness may decline with the loss of surrounding species, creating a biodiversity meltdown where loss of one coral causes losses of others. This project conducts manipulative field experiments to understand the role of coral biodiversity in facilitating coral growth, survival, resilience, and retention of these foundation species and the critical ecosystem services they provide in shallow tropical seas. This project is committed to: 1) Educating and exciting influential business and civic leaders about conservation and restoration of coastal marine systems before these systems lose ecological function and value. This will involve influential Rotary clubs within North Georgia/Atlanta (the major economic engine of the southeastern US) as an initial focus. 2) Using the Research News and Institute Communications Office at Georgia Tech and well-developed contacts with science writers to produce popular press pieces on important ocean ecology discoveries emerging from these studies. (3) Organizing a public workshop of internationally prominent scientists focused on Maintaining Marine Biodiversity as a Strategy to Sustain Ecosystem Services and Coastal Cultures and Economies. A previous effort like this, organized by the investigators, attracted about 200 attendees and was webcast to numerous high schools in Georgia and to foreign investigators in less developed countries that could not attend. Speakers also conducted in-person video interviews with local high school classes. Due to that success, this model will be repeated. 4) Working with an association of educators and cultural leaders in French Polynesia to produce electronic format presentations on our work and on reef conservation that are appropriate for use by both teachers and leaders within Polynesian culture.</p>
<p>Ecologists have excelled at demonstrating the importance of direct (often negative) interactions among species pairs. However, when these interactions occur in a complex context among thousands of other species in the field, the sum of the many, poorly-known, indirect interactions can counterbalance, or even reverse, the better-known direct interactions, generating diffuse mutualisms instead of agonistic outcomes. In a proof-of-concept initial experiment, coral growth and survivorship were greater in coral polycultures than monocultures, especially during early stages of community development. Processes generating this outcome are unclear but understanding these is of critical importance as diversity and function of reefs decline and as humans need to predict and adapt to changing environments. This interdisciplinary investigation merges expertise in experimental field ecology, chemical ecology, and the ecology of microbiomes to investigate the functional role of biodiversity in coral reef ecosystems. Experiments use a novel coral transplantation method and field manipulations to assess: 1) whether greater coral species diversity enhances coral community performance, as well as growth and survivorship of individual corals, 2) whether greater genotypic diversity enhances coral performance within a species, 3) whether greater diversity of seaweed competitors further suppresses corals and enhances seaweed performance, and 4) the processes driving the patterns documented above, including the roles of disease, intraspecific versus interspecific competition, predators, mutualists, and differential access to, or use of, resources. The research investigates the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function across dimensions of coral taxonomic diversity, from species to genotypes, and creates a series of experiments elucidating general principles underlying ecosystem dynamics. Filling these knowledge gaps advances our fundamental understanding of how biodiversity influences ecosystem function at multiple scales and provides insight into the processes promoting coral coexistence in these species-rich ecosystems. Findings will have practical implications for coral management and restoration and may improve predictions regarding coral reef resilience and recovery in the face of changing climate.</p>
Coral Biodiversity
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oceans
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2021-08-31
Moorea, French Polynesia, South Pacific Ocean (17º32’S 149º50’W)
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Coral tissue mortality in sand patches with vs. without sea cucumber removal in lagoonal habitat of Mo’orea, French Polynesia from June to August of 2021 (Coral Biodiversity project)
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
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http://www.bco-dmo.org
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920335.rdf
Name: Patch
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Patch ID in experiment</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920336.rdf
Name: Patch_Replicate
Units: unitless
Description: <p>The number assigned to each coral outplant in a given patch</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920337.rdf
Name: ID
Units: unitless
Description: <p>The unique ID of each coral outplant (Patch and Platch_Replicate)</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920338.rdf
Name: Treatment
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Describes the treatments in experiment. Sea cucumbers were either removed or not removed from natural sand patches.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920339.rdf
Name: Censor_Days
Units: days
Description: <p>The number of days that traspired until a coral outplant was either censored (100% mortality occurred) or not censored (100% mortality did not occur) before end of experiment</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920340.rdf
Name: Censor_Status
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Indicates where coral outplant experienced 100% mortality (1) or 100% mortality did not occur (0)</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920341.rdf
Name: Mortality_Percentage
Units: unitless
Description: <p>The percent tissue mortality of each outplant at 45 days</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920342.rdf
Name: Latitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Latitude of experimental patch in decimal degrees; a negative value indicates a Southern coordinate</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/920343.rdf
Name: Longitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Longitude of experimental patch in decimal degrees; a negative value indicates a Western coordinate </p>
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
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USA
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<p>At the initiation of the experiment, sea cucumbers were removed daily (removals) or left in place (controls) for seven days to condition sand patches for subsequent coral planting, after which five&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;outplants approximately 8-10 cm in length were embedded in the sediment of each patch, with % coral tissue mortality and outplant survival monitored at approximately 2-day intervals for 45 days (50 corals treatment-1, 100 corals total). The corals were initially fragmented from numerous&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;thickets adjacent to our study area, individually embedded within the cutoff necks of inverted plastic bottles using Z-Spar Splash Zone epoxy(see 56) and screwed into upturned bottle caps attached to ~7 x 7cm pieces of metal gridded mesh that could be slid into the sediment to hold each coral upright. To prevent feeding by coral consumers, each coral was caged within 1 cm2 metal screening. Corals were embedded within their sand patches so that living basal coral tissue was in direct contact with the sediment as would occur following natural fragmentation. Every other day for 45 days, we counted sea cucumbers, maintained removal treatments, cleaned cages, and quantified&nbsp;A. pulchra&nbsp;tissue mortality in each patch.<br />
<br />
To prevent feeding by coral consumers, each coral was caged within 1 cm2 metal screening. Corals were embedded within their sand patches so that living basal coral tissue was in direct contact with the sediment as would occur following natural fragmentation. Every other day for 45 days, we counted sea cucumbers, maintained removal treatments, cleaned cages, and quantified A. pulchra tissue mortality in each patch.</p>
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Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
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http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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