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Annual primary productivity in control plots at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh at Law's Point, Rowley River, Plum Island Ecosystem LTER, MA.

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:knb-lter-pie.131.12
Title:Annual primary productivity in control plots at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh at Law's Point, Rowley River, Plum Island Ecosystem LTER, MA.
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

Annual productivity is determined from aboveground biomass data collected destructively  from control plots during the growing season at  a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh on the Rowley River within the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) LTER site, MA.

Purpose:

 

Short Name:LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans
Publication Date:2020-10-05
Language:English

Time Period
Begin:
2001-05-01
End:
2019-12-31

People and Organizations
Contact:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER 
Creator:Morris, Jim 
Creator:Sundberg, Karen 
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Associate:Daoust, Rob 

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_csv
Description:
Annual productivity in control plots at a Spartina patens-dominated salt marsh at Law's Point, Rowley River, Plum Island Ecosystem, MA.
Other Name:
LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_xls
Description:
Excel metadata and data file associated with the csv data source file. Excel file after downloading is to be used for adding/editing new metadata and data.
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Name:LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_xls
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Method Description:
Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

 

Data:https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-pie/131/12/5f2c87797c069a185336882b030e280a

Data Package Usage Rights

Data Policies

PIE LTER Data Use Agreement

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, CC BY - Attribution. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

The re-use of scientific data has the potential to greatly increase communication, collaboration and synthesis within and among disciplines, and thus is fostered, supported and encouraged. Permission to use this dataset is granted to the Data User free of charge subject to the following terms:

  • 1) Citation. It is considered a matter of professional ethics to acknowledge the work of other scientists. Thus, the Data User will properly cite the Data Set in any publications or in the metadata of any derived data products that were produced using the Data Set. Citation should take the following general form: Creator, Year of Data Publication, Title of Dataset, Publisher, Dataset identifier.
  • For example: Giblin, Anne; Hopkinson, Charles (2000): Rates of benthic metabolism and nutrient cycling in the Parker and Rowley Rivers of the Plum Island Sound estuary. Plum Island Ecosystems LTER, Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/17fa8b4fef50c7b85cac3d61482a7cb6
  • 2) Acknowledgement. The Data User should acknowledge any institutional support or specific funding awards referenced in the metadata accompanying this dataset in any publications where the Data Set contributed significantly to its content. Acknowledgements should identify the supporting party, the party that received the support, and any identifying information such as grant numbers. The Data User should contact the Data Set Contact to ensure the appropriate Granting Programs are acknowledged.
  • For example: Data sets were provided by the Plum Island Ecosystems LTER. This material is based upon funding supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants #OCE-9726921, OCE-0423565, OCE-1058747, OCE-1238212, OCE-1637630.
  • 3) Notification. The Data User will notify the Data Set Contact when any derivative work or publication based on or derived from the Data Set is distributed. The Data User will provide the data contact with two reprints of any publications resulting from use of the Data Set and will provide copies, or on-line access to, any derived digital products. Notification will include an explanation of how the Data Set was used to produce the derived work.
  • 4) Collaboration. The Data Set has been released in the spirit of open scientific collaboration. Data Users are thus strongly encouraged to consider consultation, collaboration and/or co-authorship with the Data Set Creator.
  • 5) Disclaimer. While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and documentation contained in this Data Set, complete accuracy of data and metadata cannot be guaranteed. All data and metadata are made available "as is". The Data User holds all parties involved in the production or distribution of the Data Set harmless for damages resulting from its use or interpretation.

Keywords

By Thesaurus:
Core AreasPrimary Production
LTER Controlled Vocabularyestuaries, salt marshes, Northeast United States, PIE LTER, Plum Island Ecosystems, primary productivity, primary production, Rowley River, Spartina patens, Massachusetts

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:

General:
This data set is part of an on-going LTER project at the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) site.   The sampling location is in a Spartina patens-dominated marsh at Law's Point between the Rowley River and West Creek in Rowley MA. 
Sampling Description:
The biomass-estimation method is destructive.  Three control plots were permanently established in the marsh.  For sampling, a 10x10 cm quadrat is placed randomly in each plot, and all plants are clipped within 1 cm of the sediment surface and placed into a labelled plastic bag for transport to the lab.  Live and dead plants are separated, and live plants are separated by species.  Plants are placed into labelled paper bags, dried at 60C and weighed.  Sampling occurs approximately monthly from May to  October.
Permanent census plots were established in August 2000.  The first complete year of data available for annual productiviy is 2001.  In May 2006 the plots were moved due to potential contamination from nearby fertilized plots.
Data processing:
All data are entered into an Excel spreadsheet.  Annual productivity is determined using  a variation of  the Smalley method and SAS (SAS System for Windows; release 8.02; SAS Institute, Inc; Cary, NC), and is based on standing live+dead biomass  at peak live biomass for the year of interest.  Data are reported as the mean annual productivity and standard error of the 3 plots (n=3).
Elevation: LTE-MP-LPP, ~ 1.4 meters NAVD88

These methods, instrumentation, and/or protocols apply to the data table LTE-MP-LPC-productivitymeans_xls:

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

 

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Environmental Data Initiative
Email Address:
info@environmentaldatainitiative.org
Web Address:
https://environmentaldatainitiative.org
Creators:
Individual: Jim Morris
Address:
Bell Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208 US
Phone:
(803) 777-5288 (voice)
Phone:
(803) 777-4002 (facsimile)
Email Address:
morris@inlet.geol.sc.edu
Web Address:
http://research.cas.sc.edu/morris/
Individual: Karen Sundberg
Address:
Baruch Marine Field Lab, University of South Carolina,
Georgetown, SC US
Phone:
(843) 904-9037 (voice)
Email Address:
sundberg@biol.sc.edu
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Contacts:
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Associated Parties:
Individual: Rob Daoust
Address:
US
Email Address:
unknown10@mbl.edu
Role:associated researcher
Metadata Providers:
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

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

Time Period
Begin:
2001-05-01
End:
2019-12-31
Sampling Site: 
Description:Law's Point on Rowley River, Rowley, MA, site of PIE LTER Spartina patens plot level fertilization experiment
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -70.842918395996Latitude (degree): 42.730953216553

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER IV, 2016-2022)
Personnel:
Individual: Anne Giblin
Address:
Marine Biological Lab, 7 MBL Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 US
Phone:
(508) 289-7488 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 457-1548 (facsimile)
Email Address:
agiblin@mbl.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3851-2178
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Wilfred Wollheim
Address:
WSAG Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space,Morse Hall, Room 452, 8 College Road,
Durham, NH 03824 US
Phone:
(603) 862-0812 (voice)
Email Address:
Wil.Wollheim@unh.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5009-3212
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Jim Morris
Address:
Bell Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208 US
Phone:
(803) 777-5288 (voice)
Phone:
(803) 777-4002 (facsimile)
Email Address:
morris@inlet.geol.sc.edu
Web Address:
http://research.cas.sc.edu/morris/
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Nathaniel Weston
Address:
Department of Geography and the Environment ,Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue,
Villanova, PA 19085 US
Phone:
(610) 519-8009 (voice)
Email Address:
nathaniel.weston@villanova.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6837-360X
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Linda Deegan
Address:
Woods Hole Research Center,
Falmouth, MA 02540 US
Phone:
508-444-1557 (voice)
Email Address:
ldeegan@whrc.org
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1017-9599
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Joe Vallino
Address:
Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 US
Phone:
(508) 289-7648 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 457-1548 (facsimile)
Email Address:
jvallino@mbl.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-4512
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Robert Pontius
Address:
Clark University, School of Geography, 950 Main Street,
Worcester, MA 01610 US
Phone:
(508) 793-7761 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 793-8881 (facsimile)
Email Address:
rpontius@clarku.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7287-5875
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Jarrett Byrnes
Address:
University of Massachusetts, College of Science and Mathematics,100 Morrissey Blvd,
Boston, MA 02125 US
Phone:
(617) 287-3145 (voice)
Email Address:
Jarrett.Byrnes@umb.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9791-9472
Role:principalInvestigator
Abstract: 

The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER is developing a predictive understanding of the response of a linked watershed-marsh-estuarine system in northeastern Massachusetts to rapid environmental change. Over the last 30 years, surface sea water temperatures in the adjacent Gulf of Maine have risen at 3 times the global average, rates of sea-level rise have accelerated, and precipitation has increased. Coupled with these changes in climate and sea level are substantial changes within the rapidly urbanizing watersheds that influence water, sediment, and nutrient delivery to the marsh and estuary. In PIE IV our focus is on: Dynamics of coastal ecosystems in a region of rapid climate change, sea-level rise, and human impacts.

NSF OCE LTER-Plum Island Ecosystems:
Dynamics of coastal ecosystems in a region of rapid climate change, sea-level rise, and human impacts.

Funding:

1637630

Maintenance

Maintenance:
Description: 

Collections occur approximately every month from May through October.
Database is updated once annually, usually in the winter.
Study and data collection are ongoing as of Dec 2019.
Version 01; new data and metadata
Version 02; new data and metadata
Version 03: February 2, 2012, updated data and metadata to Dec 2011. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007.xlsm 2/1/12 5:00 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 04: August 8, 2013, 2012 data and metadata updated to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Research location name and description updated.Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007.xlsm 3/14/13 12:02 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 05: April 22, 2014, 2013 data and metadata updated to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA.Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Sep2013.xlsm 9/30/13 02:57 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 06: February 18, 2015, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jan2015.xlsm 1/15/15 4:26 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 07: February 24, 2016, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jan2015.xlsm 1/15/15 4:26 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 08: September 15, 2017, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jun2017.xlsm 6/15/17 10:23 AM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 09: June 14, 2018, data and metadata updated to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jan2018.xlsm 1/30/2018 2:24 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 10: February 27, 2019, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to DEIMS7 and LTER Data Portal. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jan2018.xlsm 6/21/18 3:53 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 11: October 5, 2020, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to DEIMS7 and LTER Data Portal. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Sep2020.xlsm 9/17/20 1:11 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0.
 

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