Dataset: Snail Foraging and Temperature - Snail Foraging Data
Deployment: lab_UW_FHL_OAEL_Carrington

Snail Foraging and Temperature - Snail Foraging Data

Principal Investigator:

Emily Carrington (University of Washington, FHL)

Contact:

Hilary Hayford (University of Washington, FHL)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

The effects of temperature on ecological processes in a rocky intertidal community: a mechanistic approach (Intertidal Temp Effects)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

29 May 2015

Version Date:

2015-05-29

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/559666/data

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Description

Experimental shoreline data on snail foraging, temperature, and tidal cycling - Snail Foraging Data

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Experimental field experiment conducted in rocky intertidal. Please see related reference.

Related files and reference:
Hayford HA, SE Gilman, and E Carrington (2015) Foraging behavior minimizes heat exposure in a complex thermal landscape. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 518:165-175

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

See related files and reference:
Hayford HA, SE Gilman, and E Carrington (2015) Foraging behavior minimizes heat exposure in a complex thermal landscape. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 518:165-175

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
- Generated from original file "foraging data 473867 HH 5-29-15.xlsx", Sheet: "snail foraging" contributed by Hilary Hayford
- Approx Lat/Lon of experiment locale appended to enable data discovery in MapServer
- Date formatted as YYYYMMDD
- Parameter names edited to conform to BCO-DMO naming convention found at Choosing Parameter Name

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0824903	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Experiment_Location	Laboratory identifier where experiments were conducted	text	laboratory
Lat	Latitude position of platform (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat
Lon	Longitude position of platform (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon
date	Date of measurement/observation	YYYYMMDD	date_local
plot	Replicate number; each consists of independent concrete island mesocosm	dimensionless	site
total_snails	total number of individual Nucella ostrina present in the plot; occupying any micohabitat	number of individuals	number
feeding_west	Total number of Nucella ostrina present on bait shell (empty mussel with epibiont barnacles) on western face of block	number of individuals	number
feeding_east	Total number of Nucella ostrina present on bait shell (empty mussel with epibiont barnacles) on eastern face of block	number of individuals	number
block_west	Total number of Nucella ostrina present on western face of block; presumably searching for food source	number of individuals	number
block_east	Total number of Nucella ostrina present on eastern face of block; presumably searching for food source	number of individuals	number
foraging_west	Equal to the sum of feeding_west and block_west	number of individuals	number
foraging_east	Equal to the sum of feeding_east and block_east	number of individuals	number

Database

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Dataset: Snail Foraging and Temperature - Snail Foraging Data
Deployment: lab_UW_FHL_OAEL_Carrington

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Database

Contribute Data

Dataset: Snail Foraging and Temperature - Snail Foraging DataDeployment: lab_UW_FHL_OAEL_Carrington

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Dataset: Snail Foraging and Temperature - Snail Foraging Data
Deployment: lab_UW_FHL_OAEL_Carrington