Dataset: brooded coral larvae 1 - settlement competency

Name: Brooded coral larval settlement competency (Cumbo, 2012) from Taiwan 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)
Published: 2014-09-08
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:21.9382 E:120.746 S:21.9382 W:120.746

Project:

Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)

The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change (Climate_Coral_Larvae)

Program:

Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Principal Investigator:

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Scientist:

Dr Vivian R Cumbo (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

2014-09-08

Version Date:

2014-09-08

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Brooded coral larval settlement competency (Cumbo, 2012) from Taiwan 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)

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Description

The physiological development of brooded larvae from the pocilloporid corals Pocillopora damicornis and Seriatopora caliendrum in southern Taiwan was examined.

These data include settlement competency from experiments conducted in June and July, 2010.

These data are published in Cumbo, VR, Fan TY, Edmunds PJ. (2012) Physiological development of brooded larvae from two pocilloporid corals in Taiwan. Marine Biology 159: 2853-2866. DOI 10.1007/s00227-012-2046-y. See Fig. 1e.

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Methods & Sampling

In June, competency to settle within the first 24 h (P. damicornis) or 5 h (S. caliendrum) after release was assessed by preparing replicated trials (n = 4) of 10 larvae and a preconditioned porcelain tile (2 cm^2) in a 280-mL plastic container fitted with mesh windows (110 um). These containers were retained in the same aquaria used for larval release, where they were exposed to light from metal halide lamps on a 12:12 h light/dark cycle at an intensity of 89 ± 3 umol quanta m-2 s-1 (mean ± SE, n = 44). Settlement for P. damicornis was scored after 24 h and for S. caliendrum after 5 h, and the proportion settling was used as a measure of larval competence as a function of release day.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO processing notes:

- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date, reference information
- added lab, lat, lon, expt columns
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard

Data Files

File
brood_settle.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 4.02 KB) MD5:c0787cbfea77d6f050f35e23005879c1 Primary data file for dataset ID 528728

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0844785

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_Edmunds_NMMBA		2010-03-18	Natl Museum Mar. Bio. and Aquar. Taiwan	Peter J. Edmunds (Lead Principal Investigator)	data info

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Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
expt	experiment id	unitless	exp_id
lab	laboratory	unitless	laboratory
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
species	coral species name	unitless	species
date	local date of measurement	yyyy-mm-dd	date
lunar_day	lunar day of measurement	integer	day
tank	tank id number	tank	tank
plastic	number of larvae settling on plastic in experimental tank	integer	count
tile	number of larvae settling on tile in experimental tank	integer	count
rubble	number of larvae settling on rubble in experimental tank	integer	count
attached	number of larvae attached to substrate in experimental tank	integer	count
metamorph	number of larvae that have metamorphosed in experimental tank	integer	count
swim	number of larvae swimming in experimental tank	integer	count
dead	number of dead larvae in experimental tank	integer	count
total_settle	total number of settled larvae	integer	count
total	total number of larvae in the tank	integer	count
settle_prop	proportion of larvae settle:total larvae	unitless	count

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Dataset: brooded coral larvae 1 - settlement competency