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Fiddler crab body size in salt marshes from Florida to Massachusetts, USA at PIE and VCR LTER and NOAA NERR sites during summer 2016.

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Data Package:
Local Identifier:	knb-lter-pie.540.1
Title:	Fiddler crab body size in salt marshes from Florida to Massachusetts, USA at PIE and VCR LTER and NOAA NERR sites during summer 2016.
Alternate Identifier:	DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:	Bergmann’s rule predicts that organisms at higher latitudes are larger than ones at lower latitudes. Here, we examine the body-size pattern of the Atlantic fiddler crab, Minuca (=Uca) pugnax, from salt marshes on the east coast of the United States across 12 degrees of latitude. We found that M. pugnax followed Bergmann’s rule and that, on average, crab carapace width increased by 0.5 mm per degree of latitude. Minuca pugnax body size also followed the temperature-size rule with body size inversely related to mean water temperature. Because an organism’s size influences its impact on an ecosystem, and Minuca pugnax is an ecosystem engineer that affects marsh functioning, the larger crabs at higher latitudes may have greater per-capita impacts on salt marshes than the smaller crabs at lower latitudes.
Short Name:	HTL-MAR-FiddlerCrabBodySize
Publication Date:	2019
Language:	English

Time Period

Begin:

2016-07-01

End:

2016-09-01

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

Data Entities
Data Table Name:	HTL-MAR-FiddlerCrabBodySize.csv
Description:	Fiddler crab body size in salt marshes from Florida to Massachusetts, USA at PIE and VCR LTER and NOAA NERR sites during summer 2016.
Other Name:	HTL-MAR-FiddlerCrabBodySize.xls
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Name:	HTL-MAR-FiddlerCrabBodySize.csv
Description:	Fiddler crab body size in salt marshes from Florida to Massachusetts, USA at PIE and VCR LTER and NOAA NERR sites during summer 2016.
Number of Records:	392
Number of Columns:	9

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Table Column Descriptions

Date

Latitude

Site

Replicate

carapace width

MATA

SATA

MATW

SATW

Column Name:

Date

Latitude

Site

Replicate

carapace_width

MATA

SATA

MATW

SATW

Definition:

Date crabs were collected

Latitude of salt marsh

Location where crabs were collected

Replicate crab within a site

Carapace width of a crab

Mean annual air temperature

Standard deviation of mean annual air temperature

Mean annual water temperature

Standard deviation of mean annual water temperature

Storage Type:

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Measurement Type:

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Measurement Values Domain:

Format	YYYY-MM-DD
Precision

Unit	degree
Type	real

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	GTM
Definition	Guana Tolomoto Matanzas NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	SI
Definition	Sapelo Island NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	NIB
Definition	North Inlet Winyah Bay NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	ZI
Definition	Zeke's Island NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	RC
Definition	Rachel Carson NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	VCR
Definition	Virginia Coastal Reserve LTER
Source

Code Definition

Code	DB
Definition	Delaware Bay NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	JC
Definition	Jacques Cousteau NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	CT
Definition	Sixpenny Island - Connecticut
Source

Code Definition

Code	NB
Definition	Narragansett Bay NERR
Source

Code Definition

Code	CC
Definition	Cape Cod
Source

Code Definition

Code	BC
Definition	Bare Cove Park
Source

Code Definition

Code	PIE
Definition	Plum Island Estuary - West Creek
Source

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Type	real

Unit	millimeter
Type	real

Unit	celsius
Type	real

Unit	celsius
Type	real

Unit	celsius
Type	real

Unit	celsius
Type	real

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Methods:

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Name:

HTL-MAR-FiddlerCrabBodySize.xls

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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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Data:

https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-pie/540/1/bdf8cfd8d922acbe3acd22f72dd797e0

Data Package Usage Rights

Data Policies

PIE LTER Data Use Agreement

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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.
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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
Core Areas	Population Dynamics
LTER Controlled Vocabulary	population dynamics, salt marshes, fiddler crab, 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 collected ~30 male, adult Minuca pugnax from thirteen marshes from  Florida to Massachusetts and measured their carapace width with calipers. Water and air temperature data were collected from long-term monitoring programs (such as those from Long Term Ecological Research sites LTERs) and from public weather stations.

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

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:

2016-07-01

End:

2016-09-01

Sampling Site:

Description:

Guana Tolomoto Matanzas, Florida, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-81.326751708984

Latitude (degree):

30.022708892822

Sampling Site:

Description:

Sapelo Island, Georgia, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-81.363990783691

Latitude (degree):

31.456800460815

Sampling Site:

Description:

North Inlet Winyah Bay, South Carolina, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-79.204917907715

Latitude (degree):

33.335121154785

Sampling Site:

Description:

Zeke's Island, North Carolina, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-77.943847656250

Latitude (degree):

33.959590911865

Sampling Site:

Description:

Rachel Carson, North Carolina, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-76.675979614258

Latitude (degree):

34.722114562988

Sampling Site:

Description:

Virginia Coastal Reserve, Virginia, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-75.942436218262

Latitude (degree):

37.174091339111

Sampling Site:

Description:

Delaware Bay, Delaware, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-75.437377929688

Latitude (degree):

39.088191986084

Sampling Site:

Description:

Jacques Cousteau, New Jersey, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-74.341995239258

Latitude (degree):

39.565799713135

Sampling Site:

Description:

Sixpenny Island Wildlife Area, Groton, Connecticut

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-71.981254577637

Latitude (degree):

41.333942413330

Sampling Site:

Description:

Narragansett Bay, Prudence Island, Rhode Island, National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-71.326187133789

Latitude (degree):

41.625881195068

Sampling Site:

Description:

Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.068092346191

Latitude (degree):

41.930938720703

Sampling Site:

Description:

Bare Cove Park, Weymouth, Massachusetts

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.927017211914

Latitude (degree):

42.229797363281

Sampling Site:

Description:

West Creek, Plum Island Estuary, Rowley, Massachusetts

Site Coordinates:

Longitude (degree):

-70.848899841309

Latitude (degree):

42.739189147949

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:

Version 01: November 20, 2019, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to DEIMS7 and LTER Data Portal. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Sep2019.xlsm 9/3/19 5:19 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0.

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Fiddler crab body size in salt marshes from Florida to Massachusetts, USA at PIE and VCR LTER and NOAA NERR sites during summer 2016.

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