Dataset: focal clusters
Deployment: Kimbro_2011

Counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters

Principal Investigator:

David L. Kimbro (Northeastern University)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

Contact:

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

The influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale (Oyster_Trophic_Cascades)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

2015-04-01

Version Date:

2015-04-01

Data URL:

https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/555115/data

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Description

Oyster reef cages containing either bivalves, consumers or predators were set up along the southeastern US coast from N. Carolina to Florida. This dataset includes shell counts and weights of live, gaping and spat of oysters focal clusters

Related Reference:

DL. Kimbro,JE. Byers,JH. Grabowski, AR. Hughes and MF. Piehler. The biogeography of trophic cascades on US oyster reefs (2014) Ecology Letters 17:845-854. doi: 10.1111/ele.12293.

Data is also available from the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB):
1. Cage Experiment Bivalve Data http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat?action=read&qformat=knb&sessionid=0&docid=evanlpettis.101.15

Methods & Sampling

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0961633	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-0961741	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-0961853	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1203859	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1338372	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site	Experimental study site/estuary within each region; Two sites per region	unitless	site
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
cage	ID number of caging enclosure	unitless	sample
treatment	Experimental treatment	unitless	treatment
subcage_phantom	Indicates whether clam was planted in a subcaged or phantom caged location	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
position	Position at which individual clam was assigned within the cage	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
tag	Tag on clam	unitless	tagid
wgt_init	Initial mass of cluster	gram	weight
num_live_init	Initial number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_gapers_init	Initial number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_spat_init	Initial number spat on cluster (<25mm)	unit	count
wgt_final	Final mass of recovered cluster (NR indicates the cluster was not recovered). Note that FL had only a very coarse spring scale for measuring final mass so there may be rounding error.	gram	weight
num_live_final	Final number of live adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_gapers_final	Final number of gaping adult oysters in cluster (>25mm)	unit	count
num_spat_final	Final number spat on cluster (<25mm)	unit	count
comment	Additional notes	unitless	comment

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Dataset: focal clusters
Deployment: Kimbro_2011