Dataset: focal cluster lengths

Name: Lengths of oysters in focal clusters from the oyster reefs along Southeastern Atlantic Bight (SAB) from North Carolina to Florida in 2011 (Oyster Trophic Cascades project)
Published: 2015-04-01
Keywords: biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

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

Principal Investigator:

David L. Kimbro (Northeastern University)

Co-Principal Investigator:

James E. Byers (University of Georgia, UGA)

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

A. Randall Hughes (Northeastern University)

Michael F. Piehler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill-IMS)

Contact:

Jonathan Grabowski (Northeastern University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

2015-04-01

Version Date:

2015-04-01

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Lengths of oysters in focal clusters from the oyster reefs along Southeastern Atlantic Bight (SAB) from North Carolina to Florida in 2011 (Oyster Trophic Cascades project)

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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 length of live and gaping oysters in 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

Data Files

File
focal_cluster_len.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 216.12 KB) MD5:c79718a5ca2fdccc3d1336179d93b9fe Primary data file for dataset ID 555136

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

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

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Kimbro_2011		2011-06-02	Oyster_Reefs_SE-US	David L. Kimbro (Lead Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

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
init_final	Whether this measurement was taken at the beginning or end of experiment	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
live_gaper	Whether oyster was alive or a gaper (dead oysters with only one valve should not have been measured)	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
len_shell	Length of bottom valve of oyster (only adults >25mm were measured)	millimeter	length

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Dataset: focal cluster lengths