Dataset: Water flow data from oyster reciprocal transplant experiment conducted at two sites in an estuary in NE Florida between July 2019 and April 2020

A reciprocal transplant experiment was conducted at two sites in an estuary in NE Florida, USA that encompassed different environmental (salinity, aerial exposure) and biotic (predators) stressors. Juvenile oysters were reciprocally transplanted within and between the two locations within the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR)--the Butler site at 29.77002 N, -81.2641 W, and the Pellicer site at 29.62923 N, -81.2144 W. At each location, the home and away oyster ‘demes’ were randomly assigned between a predator exclosure and a control treatment. 

To obtain site-specific information of water flow, a Nortek current profiler (Aquadopp Profiler 2MHz) was placed in a PVC stand and deployed in the water in front of the oyster reefs during the monthly oyster checks. The instrument was set with a blanking distance of 0.2m. The bin sizes were set 0.1m and 15 cells. The instrument recorded every minute except for two days (9/2/2018 and 9/4/2018) when the sampling interval was set to 30 seconds. The data was offloaded using AquaPro V1.37.08 and then converted to a Profile CSV. The .csv was uploaded into R and reorganized (see Processing Description).