Data Package Metadata View Summary

Santa Barbara Channel Marine BON: Integrated benthic cover

General Information

Data Package:
Local Identifier:	edi.80.1
Title:	Santa Barbara Channel Marine BON: Integrated benthic cover
Alternate Identifier:	doi:10.5072/FK2/82fd4a8dabfa02b7bd3dbcef75887145
Abstract:	The Santa Barbara Channel MBON tracks long-term patterns in species abundance and diversity. This dataset contains cover of kelp forest sessile invertebrates, understory macroalgae, and substrate types by integrating data from four contributing projects working in the kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, USA. Divers collect data on using either uniform point contact (UPC) or random point contact (RPC) methods. The four contributing projects are two research projects: the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (SBC LTER) and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), and the kelp forest monitoring program of the Santa Barbara Channel National Park, and the San Nicolas Island monitoring program supported by USGS. Together, these projects have recorded data for more than 200 species at approximately 100 sites on both the mainland coast and on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. Sampling began in 1982 and is ongoing. Percent cover is recorded for taxa where individuals cannot be counted. Cover can be calculated from the data here as the fraction of total points at which the taxon was present x 100. With UPC and RPC, multiple species can be recorded at any given point. The total percent cover of all species combined using this method can exceed 100%; however, the percent cover of any single species cannot exceed 100%. See Methods for information on integration and data processing.
Publication Date:	2016-12-15

Time Period

Begin:

1980-08-25

End:

2015-12-02

People and Organizations
Contact:	Miller, Robert (SBC MBON) [ email ]
Creator:	Miller, Robert
Creator:	Rassweiler, Andrew
Creator:	Reed, Daniel
Creator:	Lafferty, Kevin
Creator:	Kui, Li
Creator:	O'Brien, Margaret

Data Entities
Data Table Name:	SBCMBON integrated benthic cover
Description:	Cover from four projects using UPC and RPC methods

Detailed Metadata

Data Entities

Data Table


Data:	https://pasta-d.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/80/1/76d277e7bcc9c97f2daa4fdfd55ef11f
Name:	SBCMBON integrated benthic cover
Description:	Cover from four projects using UPC and RPC methods
Number of Records:	9
Number of Columns:	17

Table Structure

Object Name:

SBCMBON_integrated_benthic_cover_20161215.csv

Size:

1.4 kilobyte

Text Format:

Number of Header Lines:

Record Delimiter:

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Orientation:

column

Simple Delimited:

Field Delimiter:	,
Quote Character:	"

Table Column Descriptions

Site ID

Subsite ID

SBC MBON Project-taxon code

Data source

Sampling method

Date

Transect ID

Replicate ID

Points

Count

Authoritative Taxon Code

Authoritative Taxon Code Source

Taxon name

Site name

Subsite name

Latitude

Longitude

Column Name:

site_id

subsite_id

proj_taxon_id

data_source

sample_method

date

transect_id

replicate_id

points

count

auth_taxon_id

auth_name

taxon_name

site_name

subsite_name

latitude

longitude

Definition:

ID of the site, within the data source (assigned by SBC MBON)

Identifier for the subsite

Code assigned by SBC MBON for this taxon from this data source (project)

Source project for this data

Sampling method

Date of survey

Identifier for the transect

Identifier for the replicate

Number of total points counted on a UPC or RPC survey

Number of organisms counted

Taxon code assigned by an authoritative source

Name of the athority or registry assigning the Authoritative Taxon Code

Taxon name, usually species binomial or other taxon name

The site, as named by each project

Survey region within a site

Site latitude

Site longitude

Storage Type:

string

date

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float

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float

Measurement Type:

nominal

dateTime

nominal

ratio

nominal

ratio

Measurement Values Domain:

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Definition

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Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	kfm
Definition	kfm
Source

Code Definition

Code	lter
Definition	lter
Source

Code Definition

Code	pisco
Definition	pisco
Source

Code Definition

Code	sni
Definition	sni
Source

Definition

any text

Format	yyyy-mm-dd
Precision	NA

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Unit	number
Precision	1
Type	real

Unit	number
Precision	1
Type	integer

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

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Accuracy Report:

Accuracy Assessment:

Coverage:

Methods:

Data Package Usage Rights

We encourage the use of these data. However, any users intending to publish these data in any form are required to obtain written permission from the project PI beforehand. The Data User must realize that these data sets are being actively used by others for ongoing research and that coordination may be necessary to prevent duplicate publication. The Data User is urged to contact the authors of this dataset. Where appropriate, the Data User may be encouraged to consider collaboration and/or co-authorship with original investigators. The Data User must realize that the data may be misinterpreted if taken out of context. The Data User must acknowledge use of the data by an appropriate citation. A generic citation for our databases is provided on this website. While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is". The data authors shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of data sets. Data users should be aware that we periodically update data sets. By using these data, the Data User agrees to abide by the terms of this agreement. Thank you for your cooperation.

Keywords

By Thesaurus:
(No thesaurus)	algae, invertebrate, random point contact, uniform point contact

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:

The integrated dataset combines four monitoring projects in the kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, USA. The surveying methods, raw data, and meta data files for each project can be found online.

Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (LTER): http://sbc.lternet.edu

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO): http://data.piscoweb.org/

Kelp forest monitoring (KFM): http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/245/

San Nicolas Island monitoring (SNI): http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/244/

The data integration process includes data cleaning, column standardization, species validation, and data merging. The data cleaning was processed in seven steps: 1. Select the sites located within the Santa Barbara Channel; 2. Separate the biological survey data into three categories: fish survey, quad and swath count, and benthic cover; 3. Assign survey area to the corresponding record for each survey, and calculate the total point count for the benthic cover data; 4. Add life stage (adult and juvenile) information to the survey record; 5. Calculate plot average in cases where more than one diver surveyed each experimental plot (e.g. KFM roving diver fish count); 6. Remove redundant rows; 7. Convert date format into: YYYY-MM-DD.

After the cleaning process, the designated columns (for the integrated dataset) were selected and standardized indices were generated for site, subsite, transect, replicate plot, and taxon. Species’ scientific name were run through an online data base http://www.marinespecies.org/ to obtain an authoritative name and taxon information. Finally, the standardized-format table from the four projects were merged into one csv file for each survey category.

Description:

This is a test. the R code here was generated by portal.edirepository.org. Test is to learn what happens to inline metadata in pasta. uploaded to portal-d with a 10-line data table by mob, 2107-01-03

Software:

Title:

Stylesheet for metadata conversion into program

Author(s):

Individual:

John Porter

Implementation Info:

Distribution:

Data:

Inline Data

License:

license string here. or use licenseUrl element instead.

Version Number:

0.9

People and Organizations

Creators:

Individual:

Robert Miller

Email Address:

miller@msi.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Andrew Rassweiler

Email Address:

rassweiler@bio.fsu.edu

Individual:

Daniel Reed

Email Address:

dan.reed@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Kevin Lafferty

Email Address:

kevin.lafferty@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Li Kui

Email Address:

lkui@ucsb.edu

Individual:

Margaret O'Brien

Email Address:

margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu

Contacts:

Individual:

Robert Miller

Organization:

SBC MBON

Address:

UCSB,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

Email Address:

miller@msi.ucsb.edu

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period

Begin:

1980-08-25

End:

2015-12-02

Geographic Region:

Description:

Nearshore reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel and Channel Islands, California, USA

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	34.87315	Southern:	32.8
Western:	-120.65022	Eastern:	-118.4
Altitude Minimum:	-27	Altitude Maximum:	0

Project

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Santa Barbara Channel Marine BON: Integrated benthic cover

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