Dataset: Coral transplant site environmental data
Data Citation:
Scavo Lord, K. (2024) Temperature and light intensity measured at each transplant site during a reciprocal transplant experiment conducted at three sites in Turneffe Atoll, Belize from February to July 2022. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2024-05-28 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.927918.1 [access date]
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DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.927918.1
Spatial Extent: N:17.288681 E:-87.81111 S:17.28717 W:-87.815167
Turneffe Atoll, Belize
Temporal Extent: 2022-02-11 - 2022-07-20
Project:
OCE-PRF: Drivers of phenotypic diversity and adaptation in asexually propagating coral populations
(Adaptation in asexual coral populations)
Principal Investigator:
Karina Scavo Lord (Boston University, BU)
BCO-DMO Data Manager:
Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Version:
1
Version Date:
2024-05-28
Restricted:
No
Validated:
Yes
Current State:
Final no updates expected
Temperature and light intensity measured at each transplant site during a reciprocal transplant experiment conducted at three sites in Turneffe Atoll, Belize from February to July 2022
Abstract:
We sought to investigate the role of genetic, intra-clonal, and environmental variation in driving variation in fitness-related traits in the Caribbean thin finger coral, Porites divaricata (Taxonomy ID: 262287). We conducted a reciprocal transplant experiment whereby fragments from individual coral colonies of known genetic background were transplanted to three sites from February to July 2022. These sites included two mangrove sites and one reef site at Calabash Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize. Prior to and post-transplanting, fragments were measured to determine growth rate over this time. Coral fragments were also photographed to determine red channel intensity, which serves as a proxy for chlorophyll density.
This dataset contains environmental information about each transplanted site over this time period, based on loggers that recorded temperature and light levels. This data was collected by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Belize.
A related dataset contains the measures of these two coral traits (coral fragment growth and chlorophyll density (red channel intensity)) for each coral individual and also contains metadata about the genotype, origin site, transplanted site, rope at transplanted site, and age.