Dataset: Intertidal community diversity surveys at 23 sites in California, USA and Baja California, Mexico across tidal elevations from 2022-2023

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.935622.1Version 1 (2024-12-31)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Cascade Sorte (University of California-Irvine)

Scientist: Paul Bourdeau (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

Scientist: Lydia Ladah (Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education)

Scientist: Julio Lorda (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)

Student: Ryan Beshai (University of California-Irvine)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Lynne M. Merchant (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Predicting impacts of coastal species redistribution in a changing climate (CoastalRedistImpacts)


Abstract

This dataset includes information on over 100 species found in the intertidal zone on a rocky shoreline during community surveys conducted at 23 sites along the coast of California and Baja California, Mexico in 2022 and 2023. Community survey data includes visual estimates of percent area covered by various species with corresponding season and tide height.

The taxonomy of the species observed in the intertidal community survey dataset can be found in the supplemental file taxonomy_of_intertidal_community.csv.

This file contains an Organism_parameter column which lists the species name parameters used in the intertidal community survey files of 935622_suppl_intertidal_comm_survey_ca_and_baja_ca_mexico_2022_2023.csv and 935622_v1_unpivoted_intertidal_comm_survey_ca_and_baja_ca_mexico_2022_2023.csv.

Each row lists the species name parameter, the observed species, a note clarifying the observed species, since there may be an adjective describing the species or two species observed at once, and the matching taxonomy of the observed species using taxonomy information attained from WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species). Since some of the species name parameters represent two species, such as Balanus_and_Chthamalus_spp, there are two rows in the taxonomy file where the taxonomy is listed for each of the separate species.


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