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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 Technical diving with closed circuit rebreathers, transect tapes and quadrats.
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_nid String 647902
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_number String OCE-1632348
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 cdm_data_type String Other
attribute NC_GLOBAL comment String Meta-analysis data for mesophotic reefs \n   Depth ranges of occurrence for major functional groups of invertebrates, fish, and algae on global shallow and mesophotic reefs \n   Caribbean Sea, Hawaii, Red Sea, Australia, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, 1973-2017 \n  \n   PI: M. Lesser (UNH) \n   version date: 2019-07-10 \n   Published as Appendix S1 in Lesser et al, Global Ecol & Biogeogr. (2019) DOI:10.1111/geb.12940
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/ (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL data_source String extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3  19 Dec 2019
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_created String 2019-07-10T19:07:18Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_modified String 2019-07-11T17:53:08Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL defaultDataQuery String &time<now
attribute NC_GLOBAL doi String 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.772745.1
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_vertical_max double 1220.0
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_vertical_min double 0.0
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_vertical_positive String down
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_vertical_units String m
attribute NC_GLOBAL infoUrl String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/772745 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL institution String BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL keywords String analysis, bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, data, dataset, depth, dmo, erddap, Location, management, max, MaxDepth, min, MinDepth, oceanography, office, preliminary, publication, Publication_Short_title, short, species, taxon, title
attribute NC_GLOBAL license String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/772745/license (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL metadata_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/772745 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL param_mapping String {'772745': {'MaxDepth': 'flag - depth'}}
attribute NC_GLOBAL parameter_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/772745/parameters (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation String University of New Hampshire
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation_acronym String UNH
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_name String Dr Michael P. Lesser
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_nid String 645511
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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_affiliation_acronym String WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_name String Nancy Copley
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_nid String 50396
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role String BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role_type String related
attribute NC_GLOBAL project String MCESponge
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_acronym String MCESponge
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_description String NSF Award Abstract:\nCoral reefs are well known biodiversity hotspots of considerable interest to the public and scientific community. Reefs around the world are currently under threat from multiple factors such as pollution, coastal development, overfishing and climate change, where both the warming and acidification of tropical waters contributes to the loss of coral reefs and the many services they provide for us, such as protection from hurricane damage. Many studies are focused on corals, the conspicuously dominant group of organisms on many coral reefs, but other organisms are also important. One group, sponges, are essential for healthy reef function as they provide food and homes for many other reef organisms, they dramatically effect the nutrient cycles on reefs, and they synthesize important compounds of interest to the biomedical community. An emerging area of coral reef science is the study of deep reefs at depths greater than 30 meters. These coral reef systems, known as mesophotic coral reef ecosystems, were largely inaccessible until the transfer of technical diving approaches to the scientific community. In this project the investigators will study sponge populations from 3 meters to over 100 meters to examine their ability to utilize both dissolved and particulate food sources that may help explain increasing sponge biodiversity and growth rates with increasing depth. This project will provide training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students as well as veterans and post-doctoral researchers, especially from underrepresented groups. Additionally, the investigators will develop unique outreach programs for public education.\nSponges are ubiquitous members of Caribbean coral reef communities, where they have multiple roles. There is evidence accumulating that sponge populations are increasing as coral cover declines due to anthropogenic and natural factors. Trophic interactions play crucial roles in controlling the distributions of species and community structure; however, the relative importance of top-down (predation) and bottom-up (nutrient resources) control of populations remains a hotly debated topic. Recently, it has been proposed that sponges consume large amounts of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and release large numbers of choanocytes that fuel a \"sponge loop\" detrital pathway of significance to higher trophic levels. A largely overlooked, but clearly stated, requirement for the \"sponge-loop\" hypothesis to be broadly generalizable is that sponges must exhibit little, or no, net growth as the only way to balance the loss of carbon in the form of choanocytes (=detritus), with the intake of both particulate organic carbon (POC) and DOC; however, sponges do grow. Additionally, on both shallow and mesophotic coral reefs (MCEs: 3-150m depth), there is a strong vertical gradient in bacterioplankton resources on which sponges feed, and enhanced growth in the presence of spongivory argues for the importance of particulate organic carbon (POC). Missing so far in this discussion is the important role of dissolved and particulate organic nitrogen (DON/PON) that would be essential for sponge growth on coral reefs. This proposal has two goals: 1) quantify the DOC/POC and DON/PON resources available across the shallow to mesophotic depth gradient that has never been done before, and 2) quantify the depth dependence on these resources by a broad taxonomic representation of sponges that also includes multiple life-history strategies across shallow to mesophotic depths. To accomplish this second task the investigators will conduct studies on the growth of sponges from shallow to mesophotic depths to tease apart the independent and interactive roles of DOC/POC and DON/PON in sponge growth. They will also construct carbon, nitrogen and energetic budgets for sponges utilizing these resources. The project will provide the first comprehensive inventory of DOC/POC and DON/PON on several coral reefs. This will be complemented by studies of feeding and growth across the shallow to mesophotic depth gradient. With continuing changes in the community structure of both shallow and mesophotic reefs, understanding whether we can predict, using models of ecosystem function, which reefs will undergo transitions to sponge dominated communities and what factors contribute to these transitions, will be of use to local marine resource managers. These data will also inform the broader field of marine ecology, as well as provide new insights into mesophotic reef structure and function. Finally, sponge samples collected from mesophotic coral reefs often represent new species and they will be made available to scientists upon request.
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_end_date String 2019-08
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_geolocation String Curacao, Cayman Islands
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_name String Collaborative Research: Sponge Growth is Nitrogen Limited over the Shallow to Mesophotic Depth Gradient
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_project_nid String 647904
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_start_date String 2016-09
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 Depth ranges of occurrence for major functional groups of invertebrates, fish, and algae on global shallow and mesophotic reefs. Studies were found in published literature from 1973 to 2017.
attribute NC_GLOBAL title String [Depth ranges for global mesophotic reefs] - Depth ranges of occurrence for major functional groups of invertebrates, fish, and algae on global shallow and mesophotic reefs, 1973–2017 (Collaborative Research: Sponge Growth is Nitrogen Limited over the Shallow to Mesophotic Depth Gradient)
attribute NC_GLOBAL version String 1
attribute NC_GLOBAL xml_source String osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
variable Publication_Short_title String
attribute Publication_Short_title bcodmo_name String reference_paper
attribute Publication_Short_title description String abbreviated citation
attribute Publication_Short_title long_name String Publication Short Title
attribute Publication_Short_title units String unitless
variable Species String
attribute Species bcodmo_name String species
attribute Species description String species name
attribute Species long_name String Species
attribute Species units String unitless
variable MinDepth float
attribute MinDepth _FillValue float NaN
attribute MinDepth actual_range float 0.0, 29.6
attribute MinDepth bcodmo_name String depth_min
attribute MinDepth description String depth minimum of occurrence
attribute MinDepth long_name String Min Depth
attribute MinDepth units String meters
variable depth double
attribute depth _CoordinateAxisType String Height
attribute depth _CoordinateZisPositive String down
attribute depth _FillValue double NaN
attribute depth actual_range double 0.0, 1220.0
attribute depth axis String Z
attribute depth bcodmo_name String depth_max
attribute depth description String depth maximum of occurrence
attribute depth ioos_category String Location
attribute depth long_name String Max Depth
attribute depth positive String down
attribute depth standard_name String depth
attribute depth units String m
variable Taxon String
attribute Taxon bcodmo_name String taxon
attribute Taxon description String major taxon group
attribute Taxon long_name String Taxon
attribute Taxon units String unitless
variable Location String
attribute Location bcodmo_name String site
attribute Location description String location of species occurrence
attribute Location long_name String Location
attribute Location units String unitless
variable Analysis String
attribute Analysis bcodmo_name String exp_type
attribute Analysis description String whether benthic or fish were examined in the citation
attribute Analysis long_name String Analysis
attribute Analysis units String unitless

 
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