Dataset: Sessile community structure with and without whelk and Leptasterias predators following Seastar Wasting Disease, coastal Oregon, 2014-2015

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedVersion (2016-08-11)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Bruce A. Menge (Oregon State University)

Student: Elizabeth B. Cerny-Chipman (Oregon State University)

Student: Jenna M. Sullivan (Oregon State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)

Project: Testing the rocky intertidal community consequences of the decimation of purple sea star populations along the Oregon coast by sea star wasting disease (Sea star wasting)

Data are from an experiment measuring sessile community structure with and without whelk and Leptasterias predators following sea star wasting disease. The experiment was run at two sites from June 2014 to May 2015.

Related Reference:
Elizabeth B. Cerny-Chipman, Jenna M. Sullivan, and Bruce A. Menge. Whelk predators exhibit limited population responses and community effects following disease-driven declines of the keystone sea star Pisaster ochraceus. In Revision: MEPS.

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