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Dataset Title:  Coral species identifications, size, condition from the Belize Mesoamerican
Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014
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Institution:  BCO-DMO   (Dataset ID: bcodmo_dataset_734478)
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 method (unitless) ?          "AGRRA"    "Video"
 site (unitless) ?          1    14
 type (unitless) ?          1    3
 lat_code (Latitude, unitless) ?          1    5
 lat_location (Latitude, unitless) ?          "1-San_Pedro"    "5-Sapodilla_Cayes"
 transect (unitless) ?          1    7
 diver (unitless) ?          1    5
 life_hist (unitless) ?          "Competitive"    "Weedy"
 spp_code (unitless) ?          "ACER"    "UTEN"
 percent_of_cover (unitless) ?          0.1    7.0
 length (centimeters) ?          2.57    600.0
 width (centimeters) ?          1.5    4250.0
 area (centimeters) ?          4.5    216750.0
 pale (unitless) ?          0.0    1.0
 bleached (unitless) ?          0.0    1.0
 total_pb (unitless) ?          0.0    1.15
 percent_pb (unitless) ?          0.0    115.0
 new (unitless) ?          0.0    1.0
 trans (unitless) ?          0.0    0.95
 old (unitless) ?          0.0    0.95
 percent_mort (unitless) ?          0    100
 disease (corals) ?          0    1
 percentdisease (unitless) ?          0    100
 
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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  method {
    String bcodmo_name "sampling_method";
    String description "method used to enumerate coral species along transects: with video or divers directly counting";
    String long_name "Method";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  site {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 1, 14;
    String bcodmo_name "site";
    String description "site identifier";
    String long_name "Site";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  type {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 1, 3;
    String bcodmo_name "treatment";
    String description "thermal regime code: 1=lowTP; 2=modTP; 3=highTP. These 3 categories are based on low; moderate; and high temperature parameters (see Baumann et al 2016 for details)";
    String long_name "Type";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  lat_code {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 1, 5;
    String bcodmo_name "latitude";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 90.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum -90.0;
    String description "site code";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String nerc_identifier "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LATX/";
    String source_name "lat_code";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  lat_location {
    String bcodmo_name "site_descrip";
    String description "site location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  transect {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 1, 7;
    String bcodmo_name "transect";
    String description "transect identifier";
    String long_name "Transect";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  diver {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 1, 5;
    String bcodmo_name "person";
    String description "diver identifier";
    String long_name "Diver";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  life_hist {
    String bcodmo_name "sample_type";
    String description "coral life history guild: Stress Tolerant; Generalist; Weedy; Competitive";
    String long_name "Life Hist";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  spp_code {
    String bcodmo_name "taxon_code";
    String description "code for taxonomic species name";
    String long_name "Spp Code";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  percent_of_cover {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.1, 7.0;
    String bcodmo_name "cover_pcent";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description "percent cover by coral species";
    String long_name "Percent Of Cover";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  length {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 2.57, 600.0;
    String bcodmo_name "length";
    String description "coral colony length";
    String long_name "Length";
    String units "centimeters";
  }
  width {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 1.5, 4250.0;
    String bcodmo_name "width";
    String description "coral colony width";
    String long_name "Width";
    String units "centimeters";
  }
  area {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 4.5, 216750.0;
    String bcodmo_name "unknown";
    String description "coral colony area";
    String long_name "Area";
    String units "centimeters";
  }
  pale {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 1.0;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of coral considered 'pale'";
    String long_name "Pale";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  bleached {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 1.0;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of coral considered 'bleached'";
    String long_name "Bleached";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  total_pb {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 1.15;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of coral considered either 'pale' or 'bleached'";
    String long_name "Total Pb";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  percent_pb {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 115.0;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description "percent of coral considered either 'pale' or 'bleached'";
    String long_name "Percent Pb";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  new {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 1.0;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of mortality of each coral that was new";
    String long_name "New";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  trans {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 0.95;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of mortality of each coral that was transitional between old and new";
    String long_name "Trans";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  old {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 0.95;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion of mortality of each coral that was old";
    String long_name "Old";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  percent_mort {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 0, 100;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description "percent of coral colony that showed any kind of mortality; sum of new and old";
    String long_name "Percent Mort";
    String units "unitless";
  }
  disease {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 0, 1;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    String description "proportion for corals showing sign of disease: either 0 or 1";
    String long_name "Disease";
    String units "corals";
  }
  percentdisease {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    Byte actual_range 0, 100;
    String bcodmo_name "relative_abund";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description "percent of corals showing sign of disease: either 0 or 100";
    String long_name "Percentdisease";
    String units "unitless";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String access_formats ".htmlTable,.csv,.json,.mat,.nc,.tsv";
    String acquisition_description 
"In November 2014, benthic surveys were performed at the thirteen reef sites.
Depth of each reef site was standardized to 3-5m. Reef types surveyed included
back reefs, patch reefs, and nearshore reefs. A team of three divers surveyed
six belt transects (dimension 6 x 10 m) at each site following Atlantic and
Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) methodology (Ginsberg and Lang, 2003).
Briefly, a diver classified the genus and species of every coral
>6cm2\\u00a0within 1m of the transect line along a 10m transect. The number and
size (length, width, and height) of individual colonies of each coral species
were recorded on underwater data sheets. The collected data were used to
calculate coral species diversity, abundance, richness, and coral life history
(following Darling\\u00a0et al. 2012) for each site.
 
Additionally, six video belt transects (1 x 20m) were also performed at each
site using GoPro\\u00ae cameras attached to PVC stabilizing apparatuses
allowing each diver to stabilize the camera while surveying transects. Video
transects were analyzed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(UNC-Chapel Hill) in a manner similar to the AGRRA method used in the field,
except two additional parameters (percent coral cover and coral density) were
calculated. Results of the diver and video transect surveys were not
significantly different (p\\u00a0= 0.300). As a result diver and video survey
data were pooled at each site when possible. Full details and a comparison of
the methods employed are available in\\u00a0S1 Appendix\\u00a0of\\u00a0Baumann et
al (2016).";
    String awards_0_award_nid "635862";
    String awards_0_award_number "OCE-1459522";
    String awards_0_data_url "http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1459522";
    String awards_0_funder_name "NSF Division of Ocean Sciences";
    String awards_0_funding_acronym "NSF OCE";
    String awards_0_funding_source_nid "355";
    String awards_0_program_manager "Michael E. Sieracki";
    String awards_0_program_manager_nid "50446";
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String comment 
"all coral survey 2014 
     Coral species identifications, size, condition 
     Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS) 
   PI's: K. Castillo, J. Baumann (UNC-Chapel Hill) 
   version: 2018-05-02 
     replaces version 2018-04-16: revised species codes IRID to IRIG and MDAC to MDEC 
   Published in Baumann et al, PLoS ONE (2016) 11(9) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162098 
   NOTE: Species code list: <a href=\"https://datadocs.bco-dmo.org/docs/Thermal_History_Coral_Growth/data_docs/AGRRA_Coral_UW_Codes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AGRRA_Coral_UW_Codes.pdf</a>";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "info@bco-dmo.org";
    String creator_name "BCO-DMO";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://www.bco-dmo.org/";
    String data_source "extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3  19 Dec 2019";
    String date_created "2018-04-26T12:41:56Z";
    String date_modified "2019-12-11T18:52:32Z";
    String defaultDataQuery "&amp;time&lt;now";
    String doi "10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734478.2";
    String history 
"2024-03-28T13:52:00Z (local files)
2024-03-28T13:52:00Z https://erddap.bco-dmo.org/erddap/tabledap/bcodmo_dataset_734478.html";
    String infoUrl "https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/734478";
    String institution "BCO-DMO";
    String instruments_0_acronym "camera";
    String instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid "734487";
    String instruments_0_description "All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.";
    String instruments_0_instrument_external_identifier "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/";
    String instruments_0_instrument_name "Camera";
    String instruments_0_instrument_nid "520";
    String instruments_0_supplied_name "GoPro video camera";
    String keywords "area, bco, bco-dmo, biological, bleached, chemical, code, cover, data, dataset, disease, diver, dmo, erddap, hist, lat_location, latitude, length, life, life_hist, management, method, mort, new, oceanography, office, old, pale, percent, percent_mort, percent_of_cover, percent_pb, percentdisease, preliminary, site, spp, spp_code, total, total_pb, trans, transect, type, width";
    String license "https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/734478/license";
    String metadata_source "https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/734478";
    String param_mapping "{'734478': {}}";
    String parameter_source "https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/734478/parameters";
    String people_0_affiliation "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill";
    String people_0_affiliation_acronym "UNC-Chapel Hill";
    String people_0_person_name "Karl D. Castillo";
    String people_0_person_nid "51711";
    String people_0_role "Principal Investigator";
    String people_0_role_type "originator";
    String people_1_affiliation "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill";
    String people_1_affiliation_acronym "UNC-Chapel Hill";
    String people_1_person_name "Justin Baumann";
    String people_1_person_nid "733684";
    String people_1_role "Student";
    String people_1_role_type "related";
    String people_2_affiliation "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill";
    String people_2_affiliation_acronym "UNC-Chapel Hill";
    String people_2_person_name "Justin Baumann";
    String people_2_person_nid "733684";
    String people_2_role "Contact";
    String people_2_role_type "related";
    String people_3_affiliation "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution";
    String people_3_affiliation_acronym "WHOI BCO-DMO";
    String people_3_person_name "Nancy Copley";
    String people_3_person_nid "50396";
    String people_3_role "BCO-DMO Data Manager";
    String people_3_role_type "related";
    String project "Thermal History and Coral Growth";
    String projects_0_acronym "Thermal History and Coral Growth";
    String projects_0_description 
"Description from NSF award abstract:
Rising global ocean surface temperatures have reduced coral growth rates, thereby negatively impacting the health of coral reef ecosystems worldwide. Recent studies on tropical reef building corals reveal that corals' growth in response to ocean warming may be influenced by their previous seawater temperature exposure - their thermal history. Although these recent findings highlight significant variability in coral growth in response to climate change, uncertainty remains as to the spatial scale at which corals' thermal history influences how they have responded to ocean warming and how they will likely respond to predicted future increases in ocean temperature. This study investigates the influence of thermal history on coral growth in response to recent and predicted seawater temperatures increases across four ecologically relevant spatial scales ranging from reef ecosystems, to reef communities, to reef populations, to an individual coral colony. By understanding how corals have responded in the past across a range of ecological scales, the Principal Investigator will be able to improve the ability to predict their susceptibility and resilience, which could then be applied to coral reef conservation in the face of climate change. This research project will broaden the participation of undergraduates from underrepresented groups and educate public radio listeners using minority voices and narratives. The scientist will leverage current and new partnerships to recruit and train minority undergraduates, thus allowing them to engage high school students near field sites in Florida, Belize, and Panama. Through peer advising, undergraduates will document this research on a digital news site for dissemination to the public. The voice of the undergraduates and scientist will ground the production of a public radio feature exploring the topic of acclimatization and resilience - a capacity for stress tolerance within coral reef ecosystems. This project will provide a postdoctoral researcher and several graduate students with opportunities for field and laboratory research training, teaching and mentoring, and professional development. The results will allow policy makers from Florida, the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System countries, and several Central American countries to benefit from Caribbean-scale inferences that incorporate corals' physiological abilities, thereby improving coral reef management for the region.
Coral reefs are at significant risk due to a variety of local and global scale anthropogenic stressors. Although various stressors contribute to the observed decline in coral reef health, recent studies highlight rising seawater temperatures due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration as one of the most significant stressors influencing coral growth rates. However, there is increasing recognition of problems of scale since a coral's growth response to an environmental stressor may be conditional on the scale of description. This research will investigate the following research questions: (1) How has seawater temperature on reef ecosystems (Florida Keys Reef Tract, USA; Belize Barrier Reef System, Belize; and Bocas Del Toro Reef Complex, Panama), reef communities (inshore and offshore reefs), reef populations (individual reefs), and near reef colonies (individual colonies), varied in the past? (2) How has seawater temperature influenced rates of coral growth and how does the seawater temperature-coral growth relationship vary across these four ecological spatial scales? (3) Does the seawater temperature-coral growth relationship forecast rates of coral growth under predicted end-of-century ocean warming at the four ecological spatial scales? Long term sea surface temperature records and small-scale high-resolution in situ seawater temperature measurements will be compared with growth chronologies for the reef building corals Siderastrea siderea and Orbicella faveolata, two keystone species ubiquitously distributed throughout the Caribbean Sea. Nutrients and irradiance will be quantified via satellite-derived observations, in situ measurements, and established colorimetric protocols. Field and laboratory experiments will be combined to examine seawater temperature-coral growth relationships under recent and predicted end-of-century ocean warming at four ecologically relevant spatial scales. The findings of this study will help us bridge the temperature-coral growth response gap across ecologically relevant spatial scales and thus improve our understanding of how corals have responded to recent warming. This will lead to more meaningful predictions about future coral growth response to climate change.";
    String projects_0_end_date "2018-02";
    String projects_0_geolocation "Western Caribbean";
    String projects_0_name "Investigating the influence of thermal history on coral growth response to recent and predicted end-of-century ocean warming across a cascade of ecological scales";
    String projects_0_project_nid "635863";
    String projects_0_project_website "http://www.unc.edu/~kdcastil/research.html";
    String projects_0_start_date "2015-03";
    String publisher_name "Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)";
    String publisher_type "institution";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v55";
    String summary "This dataset contains coral species identifications, size, and condition from the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014. These data were reported in Baumann et al. (2016), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162098.";
    String title "Coral species identifications, size, condition from the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014";
    String version "2";
    String xml_source "osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3";
  }
}

 

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