Mooring metadata from PISCO Ecological Time-Series station locations and the Oregon Coast Surf-Zone; 2008-2020 (Meta-Eco project)

Website: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/3649
Version: 09 May 2012
Version Date: 2012-05-09

Project
» Scaling up from community to meta-ecosystem dynamics in the rocky intertidal - a comparative-experimental approach (Meta-Eco)
ContributorsAffiliationRole
Menge, Bruce A.Oregon State University (OSU)Principal Investigator
Chan, FrancisOregon State University (OSU)Co-Principal Investigator, Contact
Gegg, Stephen R.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)BCO-DMO Data Manager


Dataset Description

Moorings - Metadata


Methods & Sampling

Generated by BCO-DMO staff from the metadata forms


Data Processing Description

Generated by BCO-DMO staff from the metadata forms


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Data Files

File
Moorings_Metadata.csv
(Comma Separated Values (.csv), 2.39 KB)
MD5:fabe26dfab95b92e21aa1d413759f23b
Primary data file for dataset ID 3649

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Parameters

ParameterDescriptionUnits
Mooring_Id

Mooring Id

text
Type

Mooring Type

text
Start_Date

Start Date of Deployment

text
End_Date

End Date of Deployment

text
Location

General Location

text
Lat

Mooring latitude (South is negative)

decimal degrees
Lon

Mooring longitude (West is negative)

decimal degrees
Depth

Mooring depth

text

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Deployments

OMEGAS-CARX00-GIFET

Website
Platform
PISCO Cape Arago Ecological Time-Series Station
Report
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

CBLX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Cape Blanco Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

CMEN00

Website
Platform
PISCO Cape Mendocino Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

FCKX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Fogarty Creek Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

IBODXX

Website
Platform
Bodega Head Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

IMOAXX

Website
Platform
Moat Creek Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

KHLX00

Website
Platform
Kibesillah Hill Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

POHX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Port Orford Head Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

RKPX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Rocky Point Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

SHLX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Strawberry Hill Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

SRKX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Seal Rock Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors

YBHX00

Website
Platform
PISCO Yachats Beach Ecological Time-Series Station
Start Date
2008-04-01
End Date
2020-01-01
Description
surf-zone PAR, chlorophyll fluorescence, and temperature sensors


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Project Information

Scaling up from community to meta-ecosystem dynamics in the rocky intertidal - a comparative-experimental approach (Meta-Eco)

Coverage: US West Coast; North bounding latitude: 45.00N, South bounding latitude: 38.00N


Collaborative Research: Scaling up from community to meta-ecosystem dynamics in the rocky intertidal - a comparative-experimental approach

The meta-ecosystem concept hypothesizes that the dynamics of ecological communities reflect interdependence between local-scale and ecosystem processes that vary across large distances. Thus, variation among communities depends not only on locally-varying species interactions and abiotic factors, such as physical disturbance, but also on regionally- and globally-varying ecosystem processes, such as dispersal and flows of materials such as nutrients and carbon. This study of rocky intertidal communities and the factors underlying their variation addresses the issue of meta-ecosystem dynamics. The goal of this project is to understand how variability in oceanographic subsidies, such as nutrients and phytoplankton, influences benthic community structure in the northern California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Local-scale variation in upwelling along the Oregon and northern California coasts will be used to understand how changes in nutrients and productivity influence benthic-pelagic coupling, its effect on benthic species interactions, and ultimately rocky intertidal community structure. A conceptual model, in which the independent variable is seawater temperature (SWT), is used to predict how the dual effect of nutrients and light on marine benthic and pelagic primary production generates different community outcomes in the low intertidal zone. The two "endpoints" of community structure are a dominance of filter feeding invertebrates or macroalgae. The model predicts that with low (cold) SWT, nutrient and light availability is high, and macrophytes are dominant. Under very high nutrients and light, competitively dominant kelps will prevail and possibly facilitate stress-intolerant macroalgal species, and as nutrients and light diminish, kelp dominance should switch to dominance by surfgrass and foliose understory algae. With higher (warmer) SWT, conditions favor high phytoplankton production, leading to dominance by sessile invertebrates. High phytoplankton also creates low light and low nutrient conditions, negatively affecting growth of macroalgae and their ability to compete with sessile invertebrates. Research will be conducted at 15 sites nested within five capes spanning the 1300 km range of the study region. A water sampling program will quantify concentrations of nutrients and phytoplankton, field-deployed remote sensors will provide time-series estimates of light and chlorophyll a, and surveys will quantify community structure. Manipulative field experiments will test the role of species interactions on community structure and how interactions vary with ecological subsidies.



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Funding

Funding SourceAward
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)

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