Dataset: live reef bushel weight

Name: Bushel weight for live oysters used to construct 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

Bushel weight for live oysters used to construct 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 bushel weights for the live oysters used to construct the reef.

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
live_reef_bushel.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.13 KB) MD5:94b002bfe2e886773dd2c63e303d3fcd Primary data file for dataset ID 555214

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
bushel_size	Whether the bushel was of larger clusters (400 g) or smaller clusters (<400g)	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
bushel_id	Reference number given to each bushel (if given)	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
collection_id	Indicates collection batch number for bushels	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
wgt_untared	Weight of bushel including container	kilograms	weight
wgt_container	Weight of container	kilograms	weight
wgt	Weight of bushel (oysters only)	kilograms	weight
cage_id	Cage that the bushel was installed in (should be 1 400g bushel per cage and 2 <400g bushels per cage) or whether this was one of the randomly selected bushel saved for processing	unitless	sample
date_installed	Date that the bushel was installed in the cage	yyyy-mm-dd	date_begin

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Dataset: live reef bushel weight