Dataset: MWS lesion progression
Deployment: Aeby_2014

Tissue loss of Montipora White Syndrome corals with temperature and nutrient stressors

Principal Investigator:

Greta Aeby (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, SOEST)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Sean Callahan (University of Hawai'i, UH)

Evelyn Cox (University of Hawai'i, UH)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Project:

Host-environment-pathogen interactions in a model coral disease system (coral-pathogen interaction)

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Version:

2014-08-28

Version Date:

2014-08-28

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/544914/data

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Description

Measurement of the rate of tissue loss on coral fragments exposed to elevated temperatures and nutrients.

Access to this dataset is restricted until publication, approximately July 2016.
This data was made public on 2017-09-25.

Related datasets:

Montipora antibacterial-aqueous
Montipora antibacterial-mucus
Montipora antibacterial-organic
Montipora chemical fingerprints
MWS accession numbers

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Coral fragments displaying cMWS were collected off reefs on Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. A paired designed was used whereby one fragment was exposed to a stressor in aquaria and 2nd fragment from the same coral colony exposed to ambient conditions as a control. Three experiments were run testing the effect of stressors on the rate of tissue loss on fragments: elevated temperature (28C vs. 25C), nutrient stress (ambient water vs. 10MM nitrate) and combined elevated temperature x nitrate. Photographs of all fragments were taken weekly and tissue loss measured via digital analysis.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard or to match other datasets in project
- replaced blanks with underscores

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0961814	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
coral	coral fragment identification	unitless	sample
treatment	control or experimental	unitless	treatment
color_morph	color morph of coral	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
expt_id	elevated temperature or nutrients or both	unitless	exp_id
tissue_loss	average % tissue loss/day	percent change/day	no_bcodmo_term

Database

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Dataset: MWS lesion progression
Deployment: Aeby_2014