READ ME File For 'Dataset of Californian fouling communities'

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2413

ReadMe Author: Ella McKnight University of Southampton orcid.org/0000-0003-3313-3910


This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'The influence of contemporary climate change on native and non-native marine and brackish species '
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: [2022]


DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

Dataset = California fouling community 
3 csv files - tabulated data in spreadsheets

These data encompasses a 10 year period where samples of biofouling was measured at Bodega bay, California. Three marinas are situated in the bay and used as separate sites to explore. 

This dataset contains:
- 2 week recruitment data for the three sites - Species presence measured.
- Longterm data (monthly photos) - species cover measured.
- Three years of seasonally starting data. Here the community is surveyed to see development over a year. Then the survey was repeated. This happened at each site and included starting in 4 different seasons

Added to the data columns are species characteristic, dates and day count and sampling id.

These 3 files have been organised into long data format with descriptions of each species percentage cover at each time point.

Date of data collection: 01/02/2002 - 01/10/2011

Information about geographic location of data collection: California, Bodega Bay

Additional author:
Marc Rius
M.Rius@soton.ac.uk

Licence:
CC by

Related projects/Funders:
NERC grant number NE/L002531/1


Date that the file was created: July, 2020