ERDDAP > info > bcodmo_dataset_737347

Grid DAP Data	Sub- set	Table DAP Data	Make A Graph	W M S	Source Data Files	Acces- sible	Title	Sum- mary	FGDC, ISO, Metadata	Back- ground Info	RSS	E mail	Institution	Dataset ID
		data	graph		files	public	[Tagged kelp size and depth] - Kelp plant size, holdfast size, and depth from five transects at three sites in Santa Barbara Channel, 2015 to 2017 (Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems)		I   M	background			BCO-DMO	bcodmo_dataset_737347

The Dataset's Variables and Attributes

Row Type	Variable Name	Attribute Name	Data Type	Value
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	access_formats	String	.htmlTable,.csv,.json,.mat,.nc,.tsv
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	acquisition_description	String	The holdfasts of live attached kelp plants were tagged by divers with individually numbered drift cards along cross-shore transects at three reefs in each of three years. Data on the number of fronds, holdfast size, and depth were collected on each tagged plant.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_nid	String	542227
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_number	String	OCE-1458845
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_data_url	String	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458845
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funder_name	String	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_acronym	String	NSF OCE
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_source_nid	String	355
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager	String	David L. Garrison
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager_nid	String	50534
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	cdm_data_type	String	Other
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	comment	String	Kelp plant size, holdfast size, and depth PI: J. Dugan, R. Miller (UCSB) version: 2018-05-21
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Conventions	String	COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_email	String	info at bco-dmo.org
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_name	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_url	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	data_source	String	extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3 19 Dec 2019
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_created	String	2018-05-23T13:13:33Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_modified	String	2019-02-22T16:32:04Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	defaultDataQuery	String	&time<now
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	doi	String	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.737347.1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	infoUrl	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/737347
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	institution	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	keywords	String	bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, data, dataset, day, depth, Depth_ft, depth_m, diameter, distance, Distance_m, dmo, erddap, fronds, Fronds_1_m, management, max, Max_diameter_1_cm, month, oceanography, office, orthogonal, Orthogonal_diameter_cm, preliminary, site, tag, Tag_id, transect, year
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	license	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/737347/license
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	metadata_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/737347
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	param_mapping	String	{'737347': {'Depth_ft': 'master - depth'}}
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	parameter_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/737347/parameters
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation	String	University of California-Santa Barbara
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation_acronym	String	UCSB-MSI
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_name	String	Jenifer E. Dugan
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_nid	String	542219
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role	String	Principal Investigator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role_type	String	originator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation	String	University of California-Santa Barbara
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation_acronym	String	UCSB-MSI
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_name	String	Robert Miller
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_nid	String	542220
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role	String	Co-Principal Investigator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role_type	String	originator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_affiliation	String	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_affiliation_acronym	String	WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_person_name	String	Nancy Copley
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_person_nid	String	50396
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_role	String	BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_role_type	String	related
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	project	String	Linking Kelp to Beaches
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_acronym	String	Linking Kelp to Beaches
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_description	String	This project is affiliated with the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER project. Description from NSF award abstract: Primary producers, such as plants and algae, form the basis of most food webs and their productivity and fate fundamentally shape ecosystems. Often, however, food and other resources are delivered to a food web from an outside source, providing a subsidy to the recipient ecosystem. Understanding these types of trophic connections and exchanges between ecosystems is necessary for predicting how food webs may respond to change, whether environmental or anthropogenic. Despite their potential importance, quantitative evaluations of cross-ecosystem material fluxes, variation of these fluxes in time and space, and ecological responses of recipient communities are lacking, particularly for marine ecosystems. By investigating links between a source ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, this project will expand and transform our understanding of cross-ecosystem fluxes in the coastal ocean. Nearshore kelp forests are highly productive marine ecosystems characterized by large seasonal and interannual variations in net primary production (NPP). More than 90% of kelp forest NPP is exported to adjacent ecosystems including the intertidal zone. Lacking attached plants and algae, sandy beach ecosystems near kelp forests depend heavily on imported drift kelp (wrack) to support complex and diverse food webs. Although sandy beaches are a dominant shoreline type along all U.S. coasts, provide habitat and prey for wildlife, including endangered species, and are highly valued by society as recreational and cultural resources that drive vibrant coastal economies, they receive little ecological study compared to other shoreline types. This lack of knowledge hinders the conservation and management of beaches as ecosystems. Perched on the narrow rim between land and sea, beaches are highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly sea level rise, and will be impacted by changes in climate, as will kelp forests. This project integrates biological and physical approaches to achieve an understanding of the fate and transport of exported kelp, and how variability in this resource subsidy shapes the community structure and function of recipient beach ecosystems. Graduate and undergraduate students will be integral members of the research team, receiving scientific training and mentoring in coastal marine ecology and in public outreach and education. The training and participation of local residents and coastal managers in regular shoreline surveys for beached kelp plants will provide an essential research component of the study and enhance public awareness of scientific research, coastal ecology and the role of links between kelp forest and beach ecosystems. The results of this project will provide new insights into the dynamics of connectivity between coastal marine ecosystems that can be applied to their conservation and management. The project seeks to understand trophic connectivity between a donor ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, with two primary goals: 1) an evaluation of how variation in kelp wrack input affects patterns and processes in beach ecosystems and 2) a quantitative understanding of trophic connectivity through physical transport and input of drift kelp biomass from kelp forests to sandy beaches. The project will begin with two years of intensive work at a well-studied kelp forest in the Santa Barbara Channel, Mohawk Reef, and along 10 km of adjacent coastline, where the research team will measure intertidal community structure over time in response to variability in kelp inputs. To assess effects of variation in wrack input on ecosystem function, they will also measure kelp consumption and secondary production rates of intertidal consumers on adjacent beaches. They will directly observe fate and transport of kelp using complimentary approaches: 1) tracking kelp plants tagged at Mohawk Reef using drifters with GPS; and 2) tagging large numbers of kelp plants (2000) with "drift cards" at Mohawk Reef for recovery by the project team and trained volunteer beachcombers. Ending distributions of recovered drift cards and drifter tracks along the shoreline will then be computed. These data will be used to inform and validate a kelp forest-to-beach kelp transport model based on numerical simulations of coastal surface currents from the Regional Oceanic Modeling System (ROMS). Using predicted kelp beaching rates from this model run regionally, the investigators will then sample community structure and wrack biomass at a larger set of beaches spanning 100 km of the southern California shoreline to test the generality of research findings. This combination of fate and transport observations, beach community surveys and process measurements, and modeling will allow the investigators to characterize temporal variability in kelp subsidy inputs and the consequences of this variability for community structure and function of recipient beach ecosystems.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_end_date	String	2019-03
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_geolocation	String	Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA 34 N, 119 W
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_name	String	Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_project_nid	String	542223
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_start_date	String	2015-04
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_name	String	Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	sourceUrl	String	(local files)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	standard_name_vocabulary	String	CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	summary	String	This dataset reports depth and size of kelp found along five transects in Santa Barbara Channel in summer of 2015 and 2016, and fall of 2017.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	title	String	[Tagged kelp size and depth] - Kelp plant size, holdfast size, and depth from five transects at three sites in Santa Barbara Channel, 2015 to 2017 (Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	version	String	1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	xml_source	String	osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
variable	Year		short
attribute	Year	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Year	actual_range	short	2015, 2017
attribute	Year	bcodmo_name	String	year
attribute	Year	description	String	The year that the survey was done
attribute	Year	long_name	String	Year
attribute	Year	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/YEARXXXX/
attribute	Year	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Site		String
attribute	Site	bcodmo_name	String	site
attribute	Site	description	String	Unique site name
attribute	Site	long_name	String	Site
attribute	Site	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Transect		byte
attribute	Transect	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	Transect	actual_range	byte	1, 5
attribute	Transect	bcodmo_name	String	transect
attribute	Transect	description	String	Identifier for one of 5 cross-shore transects within the study reef. The transect number is determined by the order from the starting point.
attribute	Transect	long_name	String	Transect
attribute	Transect	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Tag_id		short
attribute	Tag_id	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Tag_id	actual_range	short	1001, 3000
attribute	Tag_id	bcodmo_name	String	tagid
attribute	Tag_id	description	String	A unique tag number identifying an individual kelp plant
attribute	Tag_id	long_name	String	Tag Id
attribute	Tag_id	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Month		byte
attribute	Month	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	Month	actual_range	byte	7, 10
attribute	Month	bcodmo_name	String	month
attribute	Month	description	String	The month that the survey was done; local time
attribute	Month	long_name	String	Month
attribute	Month	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/MNTHXXXX/
attribute	Month	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Day		byte
attribute	Day	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	Day	actual_range	byte	2, 31
attribute	Day	bcodmo_name	String	day
attribute	Day	description	String	Day of survey
attribute	Day	long_name	String	Day
attribute	Day	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/DAYXXXXX/
attribute	Day	units	String	unitlesss
variable	Depth_ft		double
attribute	Depth_ft	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	Depth_ft	actual_range	double	2.0, 50.0
attribute	Depth_ft	bcodmo_name	String	depth
attribute	Depth_ft	colorBarMaximum	double	8000.0
attribute	Depth_ft	colorBarMinimum	double	-8000.0
attribute	Depth_ft	colorBarPalette	String	TopographyDepth
attribute	Depth_ft	description	String	A number representing the water depth of a tagged plant
attribute	Depth_ft	long_name	String	Depth
attribute	Depth_ft	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/DEPH/
attribute	Depth_ft	standard_name	String	depth
attribute	Depth_ft	units	String	feet
variable	depth_m		float
attribute	depth_m	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	depth_m	actual_range	float	0.61, 15.24
attribute	depth_m	bcodmo_name	String	depth
attribute	depth_m	colorBarMaximum	double	8000.0
attribute	depth_m	colorBarMinimum	double	-8000.0
attribute	depth_m	colorBarPalette	String	TopographyDepth
attribute	depth_m	description	String	The water depth of a tagged plant
attribute	depth_m	long_name	String	Depth
attribute	depth_m	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/DEPH/
attribute	depth_m	standard_name	String	depth
attribute	depth_m	units	String	meters
variable	Distance_m		float
attribute	Distance_m	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	Distance_m	actual_range	float	0.0, 348.0
attribute	Distance_m	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	Distance_m	description	String	A number representing the distance along the transect of a tagged plant
attribute	Distance_m	long_name	String	Distance M
attribute	Distance_m	units	String	meters
variable	Fronds_1_m		short
attribute	Fronds_1_m	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Fronds_1_m	actual_range	short	1, 408
attribute	Fronds_1_m	bcodmo_name	String	count
attribute	Fronds_1_m	description	String	A number representing the number of fronds present on a tagged plant at 1 meter height
attribute	Fronds_1_m	long_name	String	Fronds 1 M
attribute	Fronds_1_m	units	String	meters
variable	Max_diameter_1_cm		short
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	actual_range	short	3, 200
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	bcodmo_name	String	diameter
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	description	String	A number representing the maximum diameter of the holdfast of a tagged kelp plant
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	long_name	String	Max Diameter 1 Cm
attribute	Max_diameter_1_cm	units	String	centimeters
variable	Orthogonal_diameter_cm		short
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	actual_range	short	4, 200
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	bcodmo_name	String	diameter
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	description	String	A number representing the maximum diameter of the holdfast of a tagged kelp plant
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	long_name	String	Orthogonal Diameter Cm
attribute	Orthogonal_diameter_cm	units	String	centimeters

The information in the table above is also available in other file formats (.csv, .htmlTable, .itx, .json, .jsonlCSV1, .jsonlCSV, .jsonlKVP, .mat, .nc, .nccsv, .tsv, .xhtml) via a RESTful web service.