Data Package Metadata View Summary

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Farmerfish gardens help buffer stony corals against marine heat waves, data for Honeycutt et al., PLOS One 2023

General Information

Data Package:

Local Identifier:

knb-lter-mcr.5047.2

Title:

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Farmerfish gardens help buffer stony corals against marine heat waves, data for Honeycutt et al., PLOS One 2023

Alternate Identifier:

DOI PLACE HOLDER

Abstract:

These data were generated in support of the manuscript: Honeycutt RC, Holbrook SJ, Brooks, AJ, and RJ Schmitt, PLOS One

In Moorea, French Polynesia, we evaluated the response and fate of stony coral following a major thermal stress event in 2019 that caused a substantial amount of branching coral (dominantly Pocillopora) to bleach and die. We investigated whether Pocillopora colonies that occurred within territorial gardens protected by the farmerfish Stegastes nigricans were less susceptible to or survived bleaching better than Pocillopora on adjacent, undefended substrate. Bleaching prevalence and severity, which were quantified for >1,100 colonies shortly after they bleached, did not differ between colonies within or outside of defended gardens. By contrast, 399 focal colonies followed for one year revealed that a bleached coral within a garden was a third less likely to suffer complete colony death and, for survivors, about twice as likely to recover to its pre-bleaching cover of living tissue compared to Pocillopora outside of a farmerfish garden. Our findings indicate that while residing in a farmerfish garden may not reduce the bleaching susceptibility of a coral during thermal stress, it does help buffer a bleached coral against severe outcomes. This oasis effect of farmerfish gardens, where survival and recovery of thermally-damaged corals are enhanced, is another mechanism that helps explain why large Pocillopora colonies are far more abundant in farmerfish territories than elsewhere in the lagoons of Moorea, despite gardens being much less common. As such, farmerfish may have a growing role in maintaining the resilience of branching corals as the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves continue to increase.

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2023). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.

Publication Date:

2023-02-01

For more information:
Visit:	DOI PLACE HOLDER

Time Period

Begin:

2019-06-01

End:

2020-08-31

People and Organizations
Contact:	Information Manager (Moorea Coral Reef LTER) [ email ]
Organization:	Moorea Coral Reef LTER
Creator:	Honeycutt, Randi (Moorea Coral Reef LTER)
Associate:	Holbrook, Sally (Moorea Coral Reef LTER, Principle Investigator)
Associate:	Schmitt, Russell (Moorea Coral Reef LTER, Principle Investigator)
Associate:	Brooks, Andrew (Moorea Coral Reef LTER, Investigator)

Data Entities
Data Table Name:	Pocillopora Tagged Data
Description:	Percentage of each tagged coral colony that was alive and bleached or dead. Corals were surveyed in June 2019 and August 2020. Includes information on size category of coral and whether or not the colony was inside a Stegastes nigricans garden.
Data Table Name:	Pocillopora Survey Data
Description:	Percentage of each coral colony that was alive and bleached or dead. Includes information on size category of coral and whether or not the colony was inside a Stegastes nigricans garden.

Detailed Metadata

Data Entities

Data Table


Data:	https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-mcr/5047/2/af5edcfc6f8bb0586ed00e1638410337
Name:	Pocillopora Tagged Data
Description:	Percentage of each tagged coral colony that was alive and bleached or dead. Corals were surveyed in June 2019 and August 2020. Includes information on size category of coral and whether or not the colony was inside a Stegastes nigricans garden.
Number of Records:	399
Number of Columns:	9

Table Structure

Object Name:

HoneycuttR_Poc_Tagged_Data.csv

Size:

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Authentication:

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Simple Delimited:

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Quote Character:	"

Table Column Descriptions

Coral ID

Size Class

Garden

Percent Bleached Initially

Percent Alive Initially

Percent Dead Initially

Percent Bleached Final

Percent Alive Final

Percent Dead Final

Column Name:

Coral_ID

Size_Class

Garden

Pct_Bleach_Init

Pct_Alive_Init

Pct_Dead_Init

Pct_Bleach_Final

Pct_Alive_Final

Pct_Dead_Final

Definition:

Tagged corals identified by number

Diameter of coral colonies, categorized by size class

Stegastes garden status, whether coral is located inside or outside

Percent of coral colony bleached in June 2019

Percent of coral colony alive in June 2019

Percent of coral colony dead in June 2019

Percent of coral colony bleached in August 2020

Percent of coral colony alive in August 2020

Percent of coral colony dead in August 2020

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Measurement Values Domain:

Definition

Tagged corals identified by number

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

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Code	1
Definition	< 3 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	2
Definition	3 - 10 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	3
Definition	11 - 20 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	4
Definition	21 - 30 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	5
Definition	> 30 cm
Source

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	N
Definition	Coral not located inside Stegastes garden
Source

Code Definition

Code	Y
Definition	Coral located inside Stegastes garden
Source

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Unit	percent
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Accuracy Report:

Accuracy Assessment:

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Data Table


Data:	https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-mcr/5047/2/77b1c55853cf0efbeccf5ec4e404993d
Name:	Pocillopora Survey Data
Description:	Percentage of each coral colony that was alive and bleached or dead. Includes information on size category of coral and whether or not the colony was inside a Stegastes nigricans garden.
Number of Records:	1137
Number of Columns:	6

Table Structure

Object Name:

HoneycuttR_Poc_Survey_Data.csv

Size:

21728 byte

Authentication:

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Text Format:

Number of Header Lines:

Record Delimiter:

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Orientation:

column

Simple Delimited:

Field Delimiter:	,
Quote Character:	"

Table Column Descriptions

Coral ID

Size Class

Garden

Percent Bleached

Percent Alive

Percent Dead

Column Name:

Coral_ID

Size_Class

Garden

Pct_Bleach

Pct_Alive

Pct_Dead

Definition:

Tagged corals identified by number

Diameter of coral colonies, categorized by size class

Stegastes garden status, whether coral is located inside or outside

Percent of coral colony bleached

Percent of coral colony alive

Percent of coral colony dead

Storage Type:

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Measurement Type:

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Measurement Values Domain:

Definition

Tagged corals identified by number

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	1
Definition	< 3 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	2
Definition	3 - 10 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	3
Definition	11 - 20 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	4
Definition	21 - 30 cm
Source

Code Definition

Code	5
Definition	> 30 cm
Source

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	N
Definition	Coral not located inside Stegastes garden
Source

Code Definition

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Definition	Coral located inside Stegastes garden
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Methods:

Data Package Usage Rights

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
(No thesaurus)	LTER, MCR, resiliance, marine heat waves, coral phase shifts, coral bleaching, Pocillopora, Stegastes, Moorea Coral Reef
Institute, Organization, or Funding Agency	California State University Northridge, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NSF, Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California Santa Barbara
LTER Controlled Vocabulary	marine, macroalgae, corals, coral reefs

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:

The study site was a 2.0 x 0.5 km study polygon located between the Avaroa Pass and the Irihonu Pass in the lagoon at the eastern-most corner of the north shore of the island of Moorea, French Polynesia (17o 30’S, 149o 50’W). A field survey to assess whether patterns of bleaching of Pocillopora differed between colonies located within a defended farmerfish (Stegastes nigricans) garden (territory) and those on adjacent, unprotected substrate was conducted during June and July 2019 before bleached tissues of surveyed coral colonies died or recovered. Divers assessed all Pocillopora colonies found on 178 haphazardly encountered bommies that were scattered throughout the study area. The location (outside or inside of a garden if present) of each Pocillopora was colony and each colony was placed into 1 of 5 categories (< 3 cm, 3 - 10 cm, 11 - 20 cm, 21 - 30 cm, > 30 cm diameter. The proportion of the colony that was (1) alive and unbleached, (2) alive but bleached (i.e., tissues transparent and underlying skeleton visibly white), and (3) dead (no tissue and skeleton overgrown with algae from previous partial mortality) was estimated visually. Bleaching severity is the proportion of the tissue on an individual colony that bleached. A colony was categorized as bleached if > 5% of its live tissue was deemed to be bleached. In July 2019, 399 Pocillopora colonies that had some level of bleaching (5-100%) were selected and uniquely tagged. The focal colonies were selected haphazardly and included 263 that occurred within farmerfish gardens and 136 that were outside of Stegastes gardens. Colonies where the amount of living tissue present after a year was equal to or greater than the initial amount present in 2019 were operationally considered to be recovered.

Description:

For further method detail please see Honeycutt et al., PLOS One 2023.

People and Organizations

Publishers:

Organization:

Environmental Data Initiative

Email Address:

info@edirepository.org

Web Address:

https://edirepository.org

Id:

https://ror.org/0330j0z60

Creators:

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Address:

Marine Science Institute,

University of California,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 USA

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Individual:

Randi Honeycutt

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Address:

Marine Science Institute, University of California,

93106-615

Contacts:

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Information Manager

Address:

Marine Science Institute,

University of California,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 USA

Phone:

805.893.2071 (voice)

Email Address:

mcrlter@msi.ucsb.edu

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9808-1758

Associated Parties:

Individual:

Sally Holbrook

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Address:

Marine Science Institute, University of California,,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 United States

Email Address:

holbrook@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3015-3484

Role:

Principle Investigator

Individual:

Russell Schmitt

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Address:

Marine Science Institute, University of California,,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 United States

Email Address:

schmitt@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9674-4244

Role:

Principle Investigator

Individual:

Andrew Brooks

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Address:

Marine Science Institute, University of California,,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 United States

Email Address:

AJBrooks@ucsb.edu

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-1204

Role:

Investigator

Metadata Providers:

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Information Manager

Email Address:

mcrlter@msi.ucsb.edu

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9808-1758

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

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

Time Period

Begin:

2019-06-01

End:

2020-08-31

Geographic Region:

Description:

Moorea, French Polynesia

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	-17.45	Southern:	-17.62
Western:	-150.0	Eastern:	-149.67

Geographic Region:

Description:

Study site located in the Ava Iti Lagoon

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	-17.480609	Southern:	-17.47195
Western:	-149.779113	Eastern:	-149.797517

Taxonomic Range:

Classification:

Rank Name:

Kingdom

Rank Value:

Animalia

Common Name:

animals

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 202423

Classification:

Rank Name:

Subkingdom

Rank Value:

Bilateria

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 914154

Classification:

Rank Name:

Infrakingdom

Rank Value:

Deuterostomia

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 914156

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Chordata

Common Name:

chordates

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 158852

Classification:

Rank Name:

Subphylum

Rank Value:

Vertebrata

Common Name:

vertebrates

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 331030

Classification:

Rank Name:

Infraphylum

Rank Value:

Gnathostomata

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 914179

Classification:

Rank Name:

Superclass

Rank Value:

Actinopterygii

Common Name:

ray-finned fishes

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 161061

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Teleostei

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 161105

Classification:

Rank Name:

Superorder

Rank Value:

Acanthopterygii

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 166082

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Perciformes

Common Name:

perch-like fishes

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 167640

Classification:

Rank Name:

Suborder

Rank Value:

Labroidei

Common Name:

parrotfishes

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 170476

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Pomacentridae

Common Name:

damselfishes

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 170044

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Stegastes

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 613171

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	Stegastes nigricans
Common Name:	dusky damselfish
Identifer:	https://www.itis.gov ID: 615111

Taxonomic Range:

Classification:

Rank Name:

Kingdom

Rank Value:

Animalia

Common Name:

animals

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 202423

Classification:

Rank Name:

Subkingdom

Rank Value:

Radiata

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 914153

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Common Name:

cnidarians

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 48738

Classification:

Rank Name:

Subphylum

Rank Value:

Anthozoa

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 914163

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Anthozoa

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 51938

Classification:

Rank Name:

Subclass

Rank Value:

Hexacorallia

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 52430

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Scleractinia

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 52839

Classification:

Rank Name:

Suborder

Rank Value:

Astrocoeniina

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 52840

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Pocilloporidae

Identifer:

https://www.itis.gov
ID: 53006

Classification:

Rank Name:	Genus
Rank Value:	Pocillopora
Identifer:	https://www.itis.gov ID: 53017

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:

The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER

Personnel:

Individual:

Russell Schmitt

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Lead Principal Investigator

Address:

Marine Science Institute,

University of California,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 USA

Phone:

805.893.3777 (voice)

Email Address:

schmitt@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9674-4244

Role:

Principal Investigator

Individual:

Sally Holbrook

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Principal Investigator

Address:

Marine Science Institute,

University of California,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 USA

Phone:

805.893.3777 (voice)

Email Address:

holbrook@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3015-3484

Role:

Principal Investigator

Individual:

Peter Edmunds

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Principal Investigator

Address:

Department of Biological Sciences, California State University,

18111 Nordhoff Street,

Northridge, CA 91330-8303 USA

Phone:

818.677.2502 (voice)

Email Address:

peter.edmunds@csun.edu

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9039-9347

Role:

Principal Investigator

Individual:

Robert Carpenter

Organization:

Moorea Coral Reef LTER

Position:

Principal Investigator

Address:

Department of Biological Sciences, California State University,

18111 Nordhoff Street,

Northridge, CA 91330-8303 USA

Phone:

818-677-2034 (voice)

Email Address:

robert.carpenter@csun.edu

Web Address:

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-1868

Role:

Principal Investigator

Funding:

NSF (LTER) MCR I #OCE-0417412, MCR II #OCE-1026851, MCR IIb #OCE-1236905, and MCR III #OCE-1637396

Additional Award Information:

Funder:

National Science Foundation

Funder ID:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001

Number:

0417412

Title:

LTER: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem

URL:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0417412

Additional Award Information:

Funder:

National Science Foundation

Funder ID:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001

Number:

1026851

Title:

LTER: MCR II - Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem

URL:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026851

Additional Award Information:

Funder:

National Science Foundation

Funder ID:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001

Number:

1236905

Title:

LTER: MCR IIB: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem

URL:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1236905

Maintenance

Maintenance:

Description:	These data are from a short-term study, not planned as a time-series.
Frequency:	notPlanned

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