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Benthic algae and sessile invertebrate survey data from LTER and other reef ecosystems

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:edi.437.2
Title:Benthic algae and sessile invertebrate survey data from LTER and other reef ecosystems
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

Understanding factors that influence ecological stability is a key question in ecology. Population ecology has highlighted that synchrony within a species across locations is an important indicator of species stability. Community ecology, in contrast, has highlighted that asynchrony between species within a location may enhance the stability of aggregate properties (such as total productivity). We compiled LTER and other data across 20 metacommunities in grassland and coastal marine biomes to integrate population and community approaches to synchrony to understand drivers of ecosystem stability at different scales. All datasets feature long-term (10-34 years) measurements of the primary producer community across multiple (6-49) discrete plots, with taxonomic identifications to species in most or all cases. This data package contains data from coastal marine sites: Santa Barbara Coastal LTER; Moorea Coral Reef; US Virgin Islands; Maui, Hawaii; and the Florida Keys. The data package containing grassland sites is located at [TO DO].

Publication Date:2021-01-19

Time Period
Begin:
1992
End:
2018

People and Organizations
Contact:Lany, Nina K  [  email ]
Creator:Hallett, Lauren M 
Creator:Castorani, Max CN 
Creator:Lany, Nina K 
Creator:Reed, Daniel C (SBC LTER)
Creator:Edmunds, Peter (USVI, MCR LTER)
Creator:Carpenter, Robert (MCR LTER)

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
Synthesis samples from 5 field locations for Synchrony Working Group (LTER)
Description:
Synthesis samples from 5 field locations for Synchrony Working Group (LTER)
Detailed Metadata

Data Entities

Data Table

Data:https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/437/2/d9c5d73d11fc6a16ec41139b63b27751
Name:Synthesis samples from 5 field locations for Synchrony Working Group (LTER)
Description:Synthesis samples from 5 field locations for Synchrony Working Group (LTER)
Number of Records:217512
Number of Columns:11

Table Structure
Object Name:Synthesis_Master_2019_Marine.csv
Size:29003091 bytes
Authentication:3fcf2c163ee611ff6b158613da680882 Calculated By MD5
Text Format:
Number of Header Lines:1
Record Delimiter:\n
Orientation:column
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Field Delimiter:,
Quote Character:"

Table Column Descriptions
 
Column Name:year  
site  
habitat  
plot  
subplot  
uniqueID  
guild  
species  
abundance  
unitAbund  
scaleAbund  
Definition:year data were collectedLTER site or research stationenvironment or geophysical templatereplicate plot name, determined by the original datasetreplicate subplot nameunique name for the smallest scale of replicationgroup that a taxon belongs totaxon codeTO DO, confirm: the quantity of organisms (numeric); see unit column.unit of abundanceplot size at which abundance was measured
Storage Type:date  
string  
string  
string  
string  
string  
string  
string  
float  
string  
string  
Measurement Type:dateTimenominalnominalnominalnominalnominalnominalnominalrationominalnominal
Measurement Values Domain:
FormatYYYY
Precision
Allowed Values and Definitions
Enumerated Domain 
Code Definition
Codemcr
DefinitionMoorea Coral Reef LTER
Source
Code Definition
Codesbc
DefinitionSanta Barbara Coastal LTER
Source
Code Definition
Codecsun.usvi
DefinitionUS Virgin Islands LTREB
Source
Code Definition
CodeMain_Hawaiian_Islands
DefinitionMaui, US Hawaiian Islands
Source
Code Definition
CodeFlorida_Keys
DefinitionFlorida Keys
Source
Allowed Values and Definitions
Enumerated Domain 
Code Definition
CodeBackreef
DefinitionReef inshore of the reef crest, including lagoon
Source
Code Definition
CodeFringing
DefinitionReef along the shore (in-shore of the lagoon)
Source
Code Definition
CodeOuter 10
DefinitionFore Reef (open ocean side of reef crest) along 10 m isobath
Source
Code Definition
CodeOuter 17
DefinitionFore Reef (open ocean side of reef crest) along 17 m isobath
Source
Code Definition
Codekelp.forest
DefinitionMacrocystis pyrifera forest, located at the land-ocean margin in temperate
Source
Code Definition
CodeNA
DefinitionTO DO: not specified or not recorded
Source
Definitionany text
Definitionreplicate subplot name
Definitionunique name for the smallest scale of replication
Allowed Values and Definitions
Enumerated Domain 
Code Definition
Codealgae
Definitionalgae
Source
Code Definition
Codecoral
Definitioncoral
Source
Code Definition
Codesessile.invert
Definitionsessile invertebrate
Source
Definitiontaxon code
Unitdimensionless
Typereal
Min0 
Max14251.54 
Allowed Values and Definitions
Enumerated Domain 
Code Definition
Codemean.percent.cover
Definitionmean percent cover
Source
Code Definition
Codebiomass_g_per_m2
Definitionbiomass, gram per m2
Source
Code Definition
Codepercent.cover
Definitionpercent cover
Source
Allowed Values and Definitions
Enumerated Domain 
Code Definition
Code0.25_m2
Definition0.25 m2
Source
Code Definition
Code80_m2_transect
Definition80 m2 transect
Source
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Data Package Usage Rights

This information is released under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The consumer of these data ("Data User" herein) is required to cite it appropriately in any publication that results from its use. The Data User should realize that these data may be actively used by others for ongoing research and that coordination may be necessary to prevent duplicate publication. The Data User is urged to contact the authors of these data if any questions about methodology or results occur. Where appropriate, the Data User is encouraged to consider collaboration or co-authorship with the authors. The Data User should realize that misinterpretation of data may occur if used out of context of the original study. While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and associated documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is." The Data User should be aware, however, that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data. Thank you.

External Annotations

With link(s) out to external vocabularies
Dataset is about Marine Biome

Keywords

By Thesaurus:
(No thesaurus)Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research (LTER), Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research (LTER), US Virgin Islands, Maui, Hawaii, Florida Keys
(No thesaurus)Marine Biome, LTER Research Synthesis: Synchrony, Species abundance, Spatial synchrony, Species richness, Stability

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

We quantified spatial synchrony in species richness in 20 metacommunities from grassland and coastal marine biomes, and investigated predictors associated with variability in richness synchrony, and the relationship between richness synchrony and the stability of total cover or standing biomass. Sites ranged from 6 to 49 spatial replicates and 10 to 34 years of data for a primary producer community. Data were resolved to the species level and plot geographic coordinates were available for computing distances among plots. We measured spatial synchrony in richness by computing the species richness (number of species with non-zero percent cover or biomass) of each plot in each year, taking all pairwise correlations among plots, and taking the average to produce a single value for each metacommunity. We used multiple regression to describe how biome, spatial extent, mean species richness, evenness, beta diversity, and species turnover rate are related to the degree of richness synchrony. We used linear regression to examine the relationship between richness synchrony and variability in total community biomass or percent cover and compared this with the relationship between species richness and community variability.

Description:

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.

This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

Data Source
Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Scleractinian corals
Description:

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.

This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

Data Source
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Corals, ongoing since 2005
Description:

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.

This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

Data Source
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Benthic Algae and Other Community Components, ongoing since 2005
Description:

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.

This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

Data Source
SBC LTER: Reef: Annual time series of biomass for kelp forest species, ongoing since 2000
Description:

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.

This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

Data Source
U.S. Geological Survey data release: Time-series Coral-cover Data from Hawaii, Florida, Mo’orea, and the Virgin Islands

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Environmental Data Initiative
Email Address:
info@environmentaldatainitiative.org
Web Address:
https://environmentaldatainitiative.org
Creators:
Individual: Lauren M Hallett
Email Address:
hallett@uoregon.edu
Individual: Max CN Castorani
Email Address:
castorani@virginia.edu
Individual: Nina K Lany
Email Address:
lanynina@msu.edu
Individual: Daniel C Reed
Organization:SBC LTER
Email Address:
danreed@ucsb.edu
Individual: Peter Edmunds
Organization:USVI, MCR LTER
Email Address:
peter.edmunds@csun.edu
Individual: Robert Carpenter
Organization:MCR LTER
Email Address:
robert.carpenter@csun.edu
Contacts:
Individual: Nina K Lany
Email Address:
lanynina@msu.edu

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
1992
End:
2018
Sampling Site: 
Description:Moorea Coral Reef LTER: located on the island of Moorea 20 km northwest of the main island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. Moorea is a high, 1.2 million year old volcanic island surrounded by a well developed coral reef and lagoon system
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -149.826Latitude (degree): -17.4909
Sampling Site: 
Description:Santa Barbara Coastal LTER: located coastal zone of southern California, bounded by the steep east-west trending Santa Ynez Mountains and coastal plain to the north and the Northern Santa Barbara Channel Islands archipelago to the south. Point Conception, where the coast of California returns to a north to south orientation, lies at the western boundary and the Santa Clara River marks its eastern edge.
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -119.842Latitude (degree): 34.4125
Sampling Site: 
Description:US Virgin Islands LTREB: shallow coral reefs in the US Virgin Islands, particularly a 10 km stretch of the south shore of St. John Island (Virgin Islands National Park, Caribbean Sea)
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -64.72Latitude (degree): 18.312
Sampling Site: 
Description:Maui, US Hawaiian Islands: Maui is the second largest island in the Hawaii Island chain. Sampling sites are focused on the western side of the island.
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -156.4158Latitude (degree): 20.91855
Sampling Site: 
Description:Florida Keys: large group of small islands located in southern Florida, USA. The total area of the island is close to 140 square miles.
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -81.189682Latitude (degree): 24.691402

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:Synthesizing population and community synchrony to understand drivers of ecological stability across LTER sites
Personnel:
Individual: Lauren M Hallett
Email Address:
hallett@uoregon.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Daniel Reuman
Email Address:
reuman@ku.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Katharine Suding
Email Address:
suding@colorado.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Abstract:

Understanding factors that influence ecological stability is a key question in ecology. Population ecology has highlighted that synchrony within a species over space is an important indicator of species stability. Community ecology, in contrast, has highlighted that asynchrony between species within space may enhance the stability of aggregate properties (such as total productivity). Using LTER data, we will integrate population and community approaches to synchrony to understand drivers of ecosystem stability at different scales. The working group applies cutting-edge statistical techniques (e.g., wavelet analyses, variance decomposition) to long-term, spatially replicated data from terrestrial and aquatic LTER sites.

Background: The LTER synthesis working groups are managed by the Network Office located at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/). Working groups capitalize on the experiments, contextual knowledge, data, and creativity of the LTER Network. By funding small groups of scientists from inside and outside the Network to work intensely together on a synthesis project, the process encourages the ecological community to use existing data to probe novel theories, test generality, and search for gaps in our understanding.

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:http://doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Number:1545288
Title:Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) National Communications Office (LNCO)
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1545288
Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:http://doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Number:1929393
Title:LTER National Coordination Office: Facilitating Collaboration, Accelerating Synthesis
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929393

Maintenance

Maintenance:
Description:completed
Frequency:
Other Metadata

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