Data Package Metadata View Summary

Regional study of Melampus bidentatus density and other invertebrates in northeast U.S. salt marshes

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Data Package:
Local Identifier:	knb-lter-pie.421.3
Title:	Regional study of Melampus bidentatus density and other invertebrates in northeast U.S. salt marshes
Alternate Identifier:	DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:	We sampled the coffee-bean snail, Melampus bidentatus in four habitats (Spartina patens, tall/creekside S. alterniflora, stunted S. alterniflora, and transitional S. patens) in 8 marshes in the northeast U.S. , including the Plum Island Estuary. Overall, snails were larger in the stunted S. alternilfora and transitional S. patens habitats than in S. patens ones. Only 2 snails were found in the tall S. alterniflora. Temperature, relative humidity and other inverts were also measured. These data are published in Johnson and Williams 2017 ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.3291/full ) and refered to as the Regional Study.
Short Name:	HTL-MAR-Regional-InvertDensity
Publication Date:	2019
Language:	English

Time Period

Begin:

2014-06-30

End:

2014-07-15

People and Organizations
Contact:	Johnson, David [ email ]
Creator:	Johnson, David
Creator:	Williams, Bethany

Data Entities
Data Table Name:	HTL-MAR-Regional-InvertDensity_csv
Description:	Regional study of Melampus bidentatus density and other invertebrates in northeast U.S. salt marshes
Other Name:	HTL-MAR-Regional-InvertDensity_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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Description:	Regional study of Melampus bidentatus density and other invertebrates in northeast U.S. salt marshes
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Density of orange amphipods (Orchestia grillus, parasitized) (amphipods/m^2)

Density of isopods (Littorophiloscia vittata) (isopods/m^2)

Density of ribbed mussels (Geukensia demissa) (mussels/m^2)

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Density of caterpillars (individuals/m^2)

Density of greenhead larvae (Tabanus nigrovittatus) (larvae/m^2)

Density of other insect larvae (not identified to species level) (larvae/m^2)

Density of ladybugs (bugs/m^2)

Density of black ants (ants/m^2)

Density of totaled invertebrates (inverts/m^2)

Density of live Spartina patens stems (stems/m^2)

Density of dead Spartina patens stems (stems/m^2)

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Density of dead short Spartina alterniflora stems (stems/m^2)

Density of live tall Spartina alterniflora stems (stems/m^2)

Density of dead tall Spartina alterniflora stems (stems/m^2)

Density of Salicornia (stems/m^2)

Density of live Distichlis spicata (stems/m^2)

Density of dead Distichdes spicata (stems/m^2)

Density of totaled stems (all species) within plot (stems/m^2)

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Methods:

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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
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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.
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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
Core Areas	Population Dynamics
LTER Controlled Vocabulary	population dynamics, Spartina alterniflora, Spartina patens, abundance, invertebrates, gastropods, snails, PIE LTER, Plum Island Ecosystems

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 surveyed eight marshes along the northeastern U.S. ( At each site ten 0.0625 m2 quadrats were haphazardly tossed in each of the three studied habitats: tall S. alterniflora, stunted S. alterniflora, and S. patens. The tall S. alterniflora habitats were limited (&lt;0.25 m wide) in the North Scituate site and not surveyed. At the Great Bay, New Hampshire, and Little Sippewissett, Massachusetts sites, the stunted S. alterniflora habitats were not in isolated pannes but were instead adjacent to the tall S. alterniflora habitat. Melampus and all other invertebrates were enumerated in each quadrat. Shell length was measured for all Melampus collected using digital calipers. To examine the relationship between snail size and environmental stress, humidity and temperature at ground (snail) level was measured in each quadrat with a digital hygrometer/thermometer. Stem densities for tall S. alterniflora were estimated by counting all stems within the entire quadrat. Because stem densities are higher in S. patens and stunted S. alterniflora than tall S. alterniflora we estimated stem densities for these species in a 72.25 cm2 quadrat placed adjacent to the larger quadrat.
At the Barn Island, Connecticut, and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, marshes we observed large patches of S. patens with shorter stems and no thatch layer (the bare substrate easily observed from above; DS Johnson, BL Williams, personal observation). Spartina patens is a flood-intolerant species, and as sea level rises and flooding increases plant growth is limited until the habitat switches to the flood-tolerant stunted S. alterniflora habitat. Thus, these areas were transitional areas from S. patens to S. alterniflora as sea level rise increased flooding stress. To compare these transitional habitats with established habitats, we sampled ten additional plots in these transitional areas following the methods described above for S. patens.

People and Organizations

Publishers:

Organization:

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

Web Address:

http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/

Creators:

Individual:

David Johnson

Address:

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Andrews Hall 336,

Gloucester Point, VA 23062 US

Phone:

(804) 684-7513 (voice)

Email Address:

dsjohnson@vims.edu

Individual:

Bethany Williams

Address:

Virginia Institute of Marine Science,

Gloucester Point, VA 23016 US

Email Address:

bwilliams@vims.edu

Contacts:

Individual:

David Johnson

Address:

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Andrews Hall 336,

Gloucester Point, VA 23062 US

Phone:

(804) 684-7513 (voice)

Email Address:

dsjohnson@vims.edu

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:

2014-06-30

End:

2014-07-15

Sampling Site:

Description:

Marsh off Wells Harbor, Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Wells, ME

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.566665649414

Latitude (degree):

43.320278167725

Sampling Site:

Description:

Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Greenland, NH

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.858367919922

Latitude (degree):

43.134445190430

Sampling Site:

Description:

West Creek Left branch of Rowley River, Rowley, MA

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.849311828613

Latitude (degree):

42.737991333008

Sampling Site:

Description:

Marsh near Musquashcut Brook in North Scituate, MA

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.774169921875

Latitude (degree):

42.226112365723

Sampling Site:

Description:

Little Sippewissett Marsh off Buzzards Bay in Falmouth, MA

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.638610839844

Latitude (degree):

41.576942443848

Sampling Site:

Description:

Barn Island Marsh off Little Narragansett Bay in Stonington CT

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-71.865554809570

Latitude (degree):

41.338611602783

Sampling Site:

Description:

Narragansett Bay, National Estuarine Research Reserve, Prudence Island, Rhode Island

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-71.324996948242

Latitude (degree):

41.623889923096

Sampling Site:

Description:

Marsh of tidecreek of southeastern Long Island Sound, Across from Pelham Bay and Split Rock Golf Course, in Pelham, NY

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-73.810249328613

Latitude (degree):

40.870864868164

Project

Maintenance

Maintenance:

Description:

Version 01: November 3, 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 02: January 19, 2018, variable names and 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 03: March 28, 2019, keyword, 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

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Data Package Metadata View Summary

Regional study of Melampus bidentatus density and other invertebrates in northeast U.S. salt marshes

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