http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/949552 eng; USA utf8 dataset Highest level of data collection, from a common set of sensors or instrumentation, usually within the same research project Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Unavailable 508-289-2009 WHOI MS#36 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA info@bco-dmo.org 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. pointOfContact 2025-01-24 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) DRAFT Turf cover data for coral-turf contact experiment 2025-01-24 publication 2025-01-24 revision BCO-DMO Linked Data URI 2025-01-24 creation http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/949552 Mark E. Hay Georgia Institute of Technology principalInvestigator Frank James Stewart Montana State University principalInvestigator Zoe Pratte Montana State University principalInvestigator Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Unavailable 508-289-2009 WHOI MS#36 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA info@bco-dmo.org 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. publisher Cite this dataset as: Hay, M. E., Stewart, F. J., Pratte, Z. (2025) DRAFT Turf cover data for coral-turf contact experiment. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2025-01-24 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/949552 [access date] Turf-coral interactions Dataset Description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[How does this data relate to coral_algal_contact_data or coral turf allelopathy experiments? The abstract and methods are nearly identical, so we will need dataset-specific details.]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This dataset is part of a larger study of the coral reef ecosystem in Mo’orea, French Polynesia that examines&amp;nbsp;mechanisms governing interactions between damselfish, corals, and turf algae. The different analyses from the broader study are listed here, with links to these associated&amp;nbsp;data&amp;nbsp;in the 'Related Datasets' section below.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Analyses undertaken include&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Fertilizer impacts on damselfish behavior (&lt;em&gt;Damselfish behavior video&amp;nbsp;dataset 949539)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Fertilizer impacts on biomass plus isotopic composition of algal turfs (&lt;em&gt;Damselfish turf biomass dataset 9xxxxx)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Fertilizer impacts on coral predation and herbivory&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;Corallivory dataset 9xxxxxx,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Herbivory dataset 9xxxxx)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Impacts of fertilizer and caging on coral and algal growth&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;Coral growth dataset 9xxxxx,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Algal overgrowth dataset 9xxxxxx)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Coral-turf allelopathy&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;Turf extracts PAM dataset&amp;nbsp;949219&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Coral-algal contact dataset 9xxxxxx)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Species composition of turf gardens&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this dataset of&amp;nbsp;Turf cover composition&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; + supplemental for Coral Reefs paper)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Organism identifiers for taxonomic names within this dataset&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;br /&gt; Anotrichium tenue, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144506&lt;br /&gt; Antithamnion sp., urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:143827&lt;br /&gt; Boodlea sp., urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144261&lt;br /&gt; Caulacanthus ustularis, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145606&lt;br /&gt; Centroceras minutum, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211902&lt;br /&gt; Unidentified cerameaceae 3,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Ceramium codii, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144541&lt;br /&gt; Chaetomorpha sp.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Chondria sp.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Cladophora sp., urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:143996&lt;br /&gt; Coelothrix irregularis, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145846&lt;br /&gt; Derbesia sp., urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:143814&lt;br /&gt; Gelidiella machrisiana, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145570&lt;br /&gt; Gelidiopsis intricata, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145819&lt;br /&gt; Gelidiopsis scoparia, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212202&lt;br /&gt; Gelidium isabelae, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:372120&lt;br /&gt; Herposiphonia delicatula, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214212&lt;br /&gt; Herposiphonia pacifica, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:371670&lt;br /&gt; Hincksia mitchelliae, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145436&lt;br /&gt; Hypnea spinella, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145635&lt;br /&gt; Jania sp.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Lyngbya sp.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Neosiphonia apiculata, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:376406&lt;br /&gt; Neosiphonia sphaerocarpa, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146348&lt;br /&gt; Polysiphonia herpa, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:372336&lt;br /&gt; Polysiphonia scorpulum, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:144664&lt;br /&gt; Unidentified Polysiphonia,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Sphacelaria novae-hollandineae, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214295&lt;br /&gt; Sphacelaria rigidula,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Ulva flexuosa, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234468&lt;/p&gt; Methods and Sampling: &lt;p&gt;We utilized turfs from territories of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;to assess: i) turf effects on corals, ii) differential impacts based on turf species composition, and iii) variance in effects on the coral&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Acropora pulchra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;versus&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Porites rus&lt;/em&gt;. Species composition of turfs in territories of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;versus&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;was assessed&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by collecting turf haphazardly from territories (n = 12) of each damselfish species spread across an approximately 0.07 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;region in both March and September 2022. Samples from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;territories were collected using a 1.3 cm grommet punch and from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;territories by cutting a similarly sized area from territories on&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;A. pulchra&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;bases. Turfs were stored in 4% formalin in seawater, and species composition quantified following methods of Diaz-Pulido and McCook (2002).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; 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 onGoing Mark E. Hay Georgia Institute of Technology 404-894-8429 School of Biology 310 Ferst Drive Atlanta GA 30332 mark.hay@biology.gatech.edu pointOfContact Frank James Stewart Montana State University 775-530-3627 Leon Johnson Hall 621 Bozeman Montana 59715 USA frank.stewart@montana.edu pointOfContact Zoe Pratte Montana State University 970-309-5361 zoe.pratte@montana.edu pointOfContact asNeeded Dataset Version: 1 Unknown Walz in-situ PAM Fluorometer grommet punch theme None, User defined Fluorometer punch tool instrument BCO-DMO Standard Instruments otherRestrictions otherRestrictions Access Constraints: none. Use Constraints: Please follow guidelines at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/terms-use Distribution liability: Under no circumstances shall BCO-DMO be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this data submission. If you are dissatisfied with any materials in this data submission your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use. 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 &gt;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 largerWorkCitation project eng; USA biota oceans -149.881639 -149.881639 -17.4885 -17.4885 2022-03-07 2022-09-11 Moorea, French Polynesia, South Pacific Ocean (17º32’S 149º50’W) 0 BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from DRAFT Turf cover data for coral-turf contact experiment Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Unavailable 508-289-2009 WHOI MS#36 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA info@bco-dmo.org 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. pointOfContact GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Unavailable 508-289-2009 WHOI MS#36 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA info@bco-dmo.org 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. pointOfContact https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset/949552/data/download download onLine dataset &lt;p&gt;We utilized turfs from territories of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;to assess: i) turf effects on corals, ii) differential impacts based on turf species composition, and iii) variance in effects on the coral&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Acropora pulchra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;versus&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Porites rus&lt;/em&gt;. Species composition of turfs in territories of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;versus&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;was assessed&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;by collecting turf haphazardly from territories (n = 12) of each damselfish species spread across an approximately 0.07 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;region in both March and September 2022. Samples from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. nigricans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;territories were collected using a 1.3 cm grommet punch and from&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;S. punctatus&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;territories by cutting a similarly sized area from territories on&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;A. pulchra&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;bases. Turfs were stored in 4% formalin in seawater, and species composition quantified following methods of Diaz-Pulido and McCook (2002).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; Specified by the Principal Investigator(s) &lt;p&gt;Code for processing data can be found at: https://github.com/naltmank/coral_turf_contact_exp &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[recommend getting a DOI for the code if possible]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Specified by the Principal Investigator(s) - Imported data from source file &quot;turf_species_cover.csv&quot;into the BCO-DMO data system. - Modified parameter (column) names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions. Replaced dot separators with underscores. The only allowed characters are A-Z,a-z,0-9, and underscores. No spaces, hyphens, commas, parentheses, periods, or Greek letters. * * - Converted date format from mm/dd/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd (ISO Date 8601 format) - Added a column for Season (either austral winter or austral summer) Specified by BCO-DMO Data Managers asNeeded 7.x-1.1 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Unavailable 508-289-2009 WHOI MS#36 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA info@bco-dmo.org 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. pointOfContact Walz in-situ PAM Fluorometer Walz in-situ PAM Fluorometer PI Supplied Instrument Name: Walz in-situ PAM Fluorometer PI Supplied Instrument Description:Treatment effects on corals were assessed with a Walz in situ pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) fluorometer directly at the site of coral-algal contact Instrument Name: Fluorometer Instrument Short Name:Fluorometer Instrument Description: A fluorometer or fluorimeter is a device used to measure parameters of fluorescence: its intensity and wavelength distribution of emission spectrum after excitation by a certain spectrum of light. The instrument is designed to measure the amount of stimulated electromagnetic radiation produced by pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted into a water sample or in situ. Community Standard Description: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/113/ grommet punch grommet punch PI Supplied Instrument Name: grommet punch PI Supplied Instrument Description:Samples from S. nigricans territories were collected using a 1.3 cm grommet punch. Instrument Name: punch tool Instrument Short Name:punch tool Instrument Description: A punch tool is a tool used to make holes or indentations in materials.  Examples include: grommet punch, perforator, hole punch, biopsy punch tool, core cutter.