Dataset: Seagrass Blade Height

Name: Seagrass blade height from fish and 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.922242.1

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

Seagrass blade height from fish and seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022

Abstract:

Seagrass blade height from fish and seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022. Data are presented for two different sites: PN, which were constructed in May 2021 at the Bight of Old Robinson, Great Abaco, and CM which were constructed in May 2022 in the waters north of Little Abaco Island. 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.

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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.922242.1	2024-04-26

Description

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

Methods & Sampling

Seagrass surveys were conducted using a 10 x 10 cm quadrat. Specifically, the quadrat was thrown randomly within a larger 1x1m quadrat (used for the Braun Blonquet survyes). For each throw the number of shoots of Thallassia testudinum and Syringodium filiformes were counted and 4 shoots were then measured for max blade height for each species.

BCO-DMO Processing

* Sheet 1 of submitted file SeagrassBladeHeight2022_FinalNSF.xlsx (submitted to BCO-DMO 2024-04-18) was imported into the BCO-DMO data system for this dataset.

* 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]. All column names must be unique so the 5 duplicate tt.bladeheight and sf.bladeheight columns were renamed with suffixes _1 _2 etc.

* Date converted to ISO 8601 format

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

Data Files

File
922242_v1_seagrass-blade-height.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 90.62 KB) MD5:4d381f6788d788de2fe7dac9b2de1585 Primary data file for dataset ID 922242, 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	date 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
subsample	Subsample number (1-4)	unitless	sample_descrip
tt_shoot_count	number of T. testudinum per 10x10cm quadrat	per shoot	count
tt_bladeheight_1	height of 1st randomly sampled T. testudinum blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
tt_bladeheight_2	height of 2nd randomly sampled T. testudinum blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
tt_bladeheight_3	height of 3rd randomly sampled T. testudinum blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
tt_bladeheight_4	height of 4th randomly sampled T. testudinum blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
tt_bladeheight_5	height of 5th randomly sampled T. testudinum blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
sf_shoot_count	number of Syringodium filiforme shoots per 10x10cm quadrat	per shoot	count
sf_bladeheight_1	height of 1st random Syringodium filiforme blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
sf_bladeheight_2	height of 2nd random Syringodium filiforme blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
sf_bladeheight_3	height of 3rd random Syringodium filiforme blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
sf_bladeheight_4	height of 4th random Syringodium filiforme blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height
sf_bladeheight_5	height of 5th random Syringodium filiforme blade in 10x10cm quadrat	millimeters (mm)	height