Dataset: Braun-Blanquet Seagrass Surveys for PN clusters

Name: Species density from Braun-Blanquet seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022
Published: 2024-03-14
Keywords: seagrass, artificial reefs, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.922248.1

Spatial Extent: N:26.91192 E:-77.00752 S:26.341 W:-77.62688

Abaco Islands, The Bahamas

Temporal Extent: 2022-05-14 - 2022-05-26

Project:

Using novel ecosystem-scale experiments to quantify drivers of reef productivity in a heavily impacted coastal ecosystem (Reef Production Drivers)

Principal Investigator:

Jacob Allgeier (University of Michigan)

Student:

Katrina Munsterman (University of Michigan)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2024-03-14

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Species density from Braun-Blanquet seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022

Abstract:

Species density from Braun-Blanquet seagrass surveys for artificial reef clusters at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022.The site (PN) was constructed in May 2021 in the waters north of Little Abaco Island. Three clusters of nine reefs were constructed at the site. Each cluster was separated by at least 150 m and were constructed at ~3 m depth.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2024-03-14	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.922248.1	2024-04-26

Description

See "Related Datasets" section for access to data and metadata from other datasets from the same surveys.

Methods & Sampling

At each distance from the reef a 1x1m quadrate was placed over the seagrass bed. The percent cover was then assessed for all species present (often for the macroalgae we were only able to identify to the genus-level). Braun-Blanquet survey method, density codes are as follows: 0.1 = single individual is present, 0.5 = multiple individuals are present but < 10%, 1 = 10-20% cover, 2= 20-40% cover, 3= 40-60% cover, 4= 60-80% cover, 5= 80-100% cover.

BCO-DMO Processing

* Sheet 1 in the submitted file BBSurveys2022_FinalNSF.xlsx (submitted to BCO-DMO 2024-04-18) was imported into the BCO-DMO data system for this dataset with values N/A as the missing data identifier.

* Column names adjusted to conform to BCO-DMO naming conventions designed to support broad re-use by a variety of research tools and scripting languages. [Only numbers, letters, and underscores. Can not start with a number]

* Date converted to ISO 8601 format

* Note: These data include currently unaccepted synonyms of the accepted taxon names. The supplemental file fish_and_invert_species_list.csv which includes names and identifiers for both the names used in the dataset and the equivalent currently accepted names (as of 2024-02-26).

* Reef cluster site list added from information in related dataset file FishSurveys2022_FinalNSF.xlsx

Data Files

File
922248_v1_bb-survery-seagrass-pn.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 26.87 KB) MD5:b33cd83d9a33a5724ed4553166942dfa Primary data file for dataset ID 922248, version 1

Supplemental Files

File

Reef Cluster Site List
filename: reef_cluster_site_list.csv

(Comma Separated Values (.csv), 499 bytes)
MD5:c1c109da3d9dd8eec65fca35dcf3f838

Artificial reef cluster site list for fish and invertebrate surveys conducted in 2022.  Two different sites: reefs with name PN#   were constructed in May 2021, and CM# were constructed in May 2022.  At each site three clusters of nine reefs were constructed. Each cluster was separated by at least 150 m and were constructed at ~3 m depth.

Column name, description, units:
reef_name, Reef cluster identifier
lat_dd, site latitude, decimal degrees
lon_dd, site longitude, decimal degrees
Construction_Month, Month of reef construction (format: %b, .e.g. "May")
Construction_Year, Year of reef construction (format: %Y, e.g. "2021")
Site_Description, Description of the site location and island.

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1948622

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date	data survey was conducted Format: %Y-%m-%d	unitless	date
obs	observer	unitless	person
cluster	unique cluster ID	unitless	site
cluster_lat	latitude of cluster location	decimal degrees	lat
cluster_lon	longitude of cluster location	decimal degrees	lon
reef	unique reef ID	unitless	site_descrip
transect	Transect identifier (A, B, C, D)	unitless	transect
distance	distance from the reef	meters (m)	site_descrip
Thalassia	Thalassia values are either 0.1 (single individual), 0.5 (< 0.1 proportion coverage), 1 (0.1-0.2), 2 (0.2-0.4), 3 (0.4-0.6), 4 (0.6-0.8), 5 (0.8-1.0).	unitless	sample_descrip
Syringodium	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Syringodium'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Penicillus	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Penicillus'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Halimeda	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Halimeda'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Laurencia	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Laurencia'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Rhiphocephalus	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Rhiphocephalus'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Udotea	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Udotea'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Sponge	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Sponge'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Avrainvillia	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Avrainvillia'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Bataphora	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Bataphora'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Acetabularia	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Acetabularia'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Dictyosphaeria	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Dictyosphaeria'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Valonia	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Valonia'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Jania	Proportion (0-1) of sample that was covered by category 'Jania'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
unknown_species_1	Proportion (0-1) of sample area that was covered by category 'unknown_species_1', a consistently identified species of which the classification is unknown. Described as "green stringy." See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
unknown_species_2	Proportion (0-1) of sample area that was covered by category 'unknown_species_2', a consistently identified species of which the classification is unknown. Described as "fuzzy green finger." See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
unknown_species_3	Proportion (0-1) of sample area that was covered by category 'unknown_species_3', a consistently identified species of which the classification is unknown. Described as "soft brown stick." See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Heterosiphonia	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Heterosiphonia'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Porites	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Porites'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Halidule	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Halidule'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Turf	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Turf'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Cyanobacteria	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Cyanobacteria'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
Caulerpa	Proportion (0-1) of sample that is covered by category 'Caulerpa'. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
other	Proportion (0-1) of proportion of sample area that is covered by an organism that does not have its own column. See Methods and Sampling section for more details.	unitless	proportion_cover
animals	description of the animal. The ID and the count of individual animals in the quadrat	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
notes	notes from datasheet, etc.	unitless	comment