Dataset: Ecological monitoring of marine invertebrates on Isla Natividad from 2006 to 2021

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.907353.1Version 1 (2023-08-30)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Fiorenza Micheli (Stanford University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Clifton Brock Woodson (University of Georgia)

Scientist: Arturo Hernández-Velasco (Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C.)

Scientist: Carolina Olguín Jacobson (Stanford University)

Scientist: Jorge Torre (Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C.)

Technician: Alfonso Romero (Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C.)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative Research: Evaluating how abalone populations in the California Current are structured by the interplay of large-scale oceanographic forcing and nearshore variability (Abalone Safe Places)


Abstract

This dataset encompasses information about marine invertebrates transects between 2006 to 2021 in Isla Natividad. Abundances of invertebrates can be found in the data set. Also, the dates when the transects were done, the site, the name of the diver, the depth the transect was laid, if the site was a marine reserve or not, if the site is inside a marine protected area or not, the latitude and longitude of the sites, the temperature of the water, the number of transect from where the information ...

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Ecological monitoring was conducted once a year from 2006-2021 at six different sites in Isla Natividad, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Using SCUBA, trained divers laid 30 x 2 meters belt transects to collect in situ algae, marine invertebrates, fish and uniform point contact (UPC) found along the transect. For algae, divers counted each algae and counted the number of stipes in the organism.

For data access and methodology details for marine invertebrates, fish, and uniform point contact (UPC) data, see the "Related Datasets" section. These four datasets related to each other in the way that the information from algae, invertebrates, fish and UPC was taken from the same site, on the same date, done by the same person.

These four related datasets were collected following the same methodology. Each year from 2006 to 2021, certified divers will lay several 30m transects along kelp forest in different sites in Isla Natividad, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Along the transects, the divers will collect information of algae, invertebrates, fish and UPC (Uniform Point Contact). Each transect was done in one single dive, collecting all the information already mentioned. At the end of the collecting season, the data was checked and transferred to the main dataset.

Instruments:
SCUBA equipment
30m transects
Diving slates


Related Datasets

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Dataset: Ecological monitoring Natividad 2006-2021: Algae
Relationship Description: Datasets collected as part of the same ecological monitoring study performed Isla Natividad off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico between 2006-2021.
Micheli, F., Woodson, C. B., Hernández-Velasco, A., Jacobson, C. O., Torre, J. (2023) Ecological monitoring of algae on Isla Natividad from 2006 to 2021. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2023-08-29 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.907321.1
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Dataset: Ecological monitoring Natividad 2006-2021: Fish
Relationship Description: Datasets collected as part of the same ecological monitoring study performed Isla Natividad off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico between 2006-2021.
Micheli, F., Woodson, C. B., Hernández-Velasco, A., Jacobson, C. O., Torre, J. (2023) Ecological monitoring of fish on Isla Natividad from 2006 to 2021. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2023-08-30 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.907363.1
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Dataset: Ecological monitoring Natividad 2006-2021: UPC
Relationship Description: Datasets collected as part of the same ecological monitoring study performed Isla Natividad off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico between 2006-2021.
Micheli, F., Woodson, C. B., Hernández-Velasco, A., Jacobson, C. O., Torre, J. (2023) Uniform point contact (UPC) transect data from Isla Natividad from 2006 to 2021. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2023-08-30 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.907373.1

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