TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network Observational Data
Observational data for the Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. These data come from transects of rocky reefs taken around the world using the KEEN observational data protocol (see http://kelpecosystems.org for full description of methods and handbook). See “How” for methods. Briefly, the observational data consists of the following components, all included here: site information, fish observations, quadrat sampling, band transect sampling, percent cover from uniform point counts, and kelp morphometrics.
Data Files
Data files included and what they contain are as follows:
keen_sites.csv - Physical and locational data for all KEEN sites and transect.
keen_cover.csv - Percent cover of sessile algae and invertebrates.
keen_fish.csv - Counts of fish by size class along a transect.
keen_quads.csv - Counts of common algae, sessile invertebrates, and demersal fish that can be individuated.
keen_swath.csv - Counts of rarer algae, sessile invertebrates, and demersal fish that can be individuated.
Data Use
To use the observational data here for published work we ask that 1) You contact the network coordinator, jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu, and notify them of your intention so that we can coordinate among any ongoing projects using the same data, 2) if the data has not been used in a publication in the literature before, we request that you reach out to the PIs responsible for the data you will be using and engage in a conversation about co-authorship, 3) if it has been used previously, merely cite the datasets associated with each PI that you use. The references are listed below. jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu To use the observational data here for published work we ask that 1) You contact the network coordinator, jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu, and notify them of your intention so that we can coordinate among any ongoing projects using the same data, 2) if the data has not been used in a publication in the literature before, we request that you reach out to the PIs responsible for the data you will be using and engage in a conversation about co-authorship, 3) if it has been used previously, merely cite the datasets associated with each PI that you use. The references are listed below.
For access to the entire data cleaning and processing pipeline, see https://github.com/kelpecosystems/observational_data. For access to scans of the original data sheets, contact jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu. jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu For access to scans of the original data sheets, contact jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu.
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For general methods:
Byrnes, Jarrett E.K., Haupt, Alison J., Reed, Daniel C., Wernberg, Thomas., Pérez-Matus, Alejandro., Shears, Nick T., Konar, Brenda, Gagnon, Pat, and Vergés, Adriana. 2014. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network Monitoring Handbook. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
For specific data sets, use the following, but also include date accessed from TemperateReefBase in order to track which version of the data you are using.
Byrnes, Jarrett E.K., Haupt, Alison J., Lyman, Ted. 2014. Kelp forest communities at Appledore Island, the Boston Harbor Islands, and Salem Sound. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Dijkstra, Jennifer A., Mello, Kristen. 2015. Kelp forest communities at York, Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Grabwoski, Jonathan and MacMahan, Marissa. 2015. Kelp forest communities in Nahant, Massachusetts, and Pemaquid, Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Humphries Austin T., Paight C, Ben-Horin Tal, Green Lindsay, Thornber, Carol. 2016. Kelp forest communities in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Rasher, Douglass and Price, Nicole. 2017. Kelp forest communities of central and downeast Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Peréz-Matus, Alejandro and Shaughnessy, Brianna. 2017. Kelp forest communities of central and northern Chile. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-02-24
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network (KEEN)
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-01-06
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Keywords (Theme)
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- kelp
- Temperate Reef
- WORMS
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- Laminariales
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
- AODN Platform Vocabulary
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- To use the observational data here for published work we ask that 1) You contact the network coordinator, jarrett.byrnes@umb.edu, and notify them of your intention so that we can coordinate among any ongoing projects using the same data, 2) if the data has not been used in a publication in the literature before, we request that you reach out to the PIs responsible for the data you will be using and engage in a conversation about co-authorship, 3) if it has been used previously, merely cite the datasets associated with each PI that you use. The references are listed below:
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The citation in a list of references is: Humphries A.T., Byrnes J.E.K., Grabwoski J., Rasher D., Dijkstra J.A., Peréz-Matus A. (2018). Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network Observational Data. Data accessed at https://catalogue-temperatereefbase.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a869dfaa-59a7-4d2f-aaa6-47c2dae5741a on [access date].
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- For general methods: Byrnes, Jarrett E.K., Haupt, Alison J., Reed, Daniel C., Wernberg, Thomas., Pérez-Matus, Alejandro., Shears, Nick T., Konar, Brenda, Gagnon, Pat, and Vergés, Adriana. 2014. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network Monitoring Handbook. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. For specific data sets, use the following, but also include date accessed from TemperateReefBase in order to track which version of the data you are using. Byrnes, Jarrett E.K., Haupt, Alison J., Lyman, Ted. 2014. Kelp forest communities at Appledore Island, the Boston Harbor Islands, and Salem Sound. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. Dijkstra, Jennifer A., Mello, Kristen. 2015. Kelp forest communities at York, Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. Grabwoski, Jonathan and MacMahan, Marissa. 2015. Kelp forest communities in Nahant, Massachusetts, and Pemaquid, Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. Humphries Austin T., Paight C, Ben-Horin Tal, Green Lindsay, Thornber, Carol. 2016. Kelp forest communities in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. Rasher, Douglass and Price, Nicole. 2017. Kelp forest communities of central and downeast Maine. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network. Peréz-Matus, Alejandro and Shaughnessy, Brianna. 2017. Kelp forest communities of central and northern Chile. Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network.
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Description
- The last name of the Principle Investigator leading the effort to sample a site
- Name
- Principle Investigator
- Name
- PI
- Name
- Name
- Description
- The name of the subnetwork within KEEN: KEEN ONE = KEEN Of New England, KEEN B2B = KEEN Baja to Bering, SUBEKEEN = KEEN South America
- Name
- Network within KEEN
- Name
- NETWORK
- Name
- character
- Name
- Year of sampling
- Name
- YEAR
- Name
- year
- Name
- Month of Sampling
- Name
- MONTH
- Name
- month
- Name
- Day of Sampling
- Name
- DAY
- Name
- Day of month
- Description
- Name of sampled site by PI group doing the sampling. Site names might be the same across different PI groups, so be sure to use PI when grouping.
- Name
- Site Sampled
- Name
- SITE
- Name
- character
- Description
- Name or number of transect within a site. Typically, transects are 1-4, but some sites have transects with specific names corresponding to other known features.
- Name
- Transect within site
- Name
- TRANSECT
- Name
- character
- Name
- Latitude of start of Transect
- Name
- START_LATITUDE
- Name
- Decimal Degrees
- Name
- Longitude at start of transect
- Name
- START_LONGITUDE
- Name
- Decimal Degrees
- Name
- Latitude at end of transect
- Name
- END_LATITUDE
- Name
- Decimal Degrees
- Name
- Longitude at end of transect
- Name
- END_LONGITUDE
- Name
- Decimal Degrees
- Name
- Depth at start of transect in meteres
- Name
- START_DEPTH_M
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
- Name
- Depth at end of transect in meters
- Name
- END_DEPTH_M
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
- Name
- Temperature measured at site at depth by divers
- Name
- TEMPERATURE_C
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPAA
- Name
- Degrees Celsius
- Name
- Visibility along transect in meters
- Name
- VISIBILITY_M
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
- Description
- Code is unique to network. The same code might be used across different networks, but mean different species. Use caution or more specific taxonomic information.
- Name
- Species Code
- Name
- SP_CODE
- Name
- character
- Name
- Percent cover of a species from uniform point counts
- Name
- PERCENT_COVER
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPCT
- Name
- Percent
- Name
- Division from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- DIVISION.FAMILY
- Name
- character
- Name
- Common group or division name based on functional groups from KEEN
- Name
- COMMON.DIVISION.NAME
- Name
- character
- Name
- Information on size class or life history status
- Name
- SIZE
- Name
- character
- Description
- Name is unique to network. The same name might be used across different networks, but for different species.
- Name
- Common name of species in network locale
- Name
- COMMON.NAME
- Name
- character
- Name
- Species name input into WORMS to find current taxonomically correct species name
- Name
- INPUTID
- Name
- character
- Name
- Kingdom from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- KINGDOM
- Name
- character
- Name
- Phylum from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- PHYLUM
- Name
- character
- Name
- Class from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- CLASS
- Name
- character
- Name
- Order from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- ORDER
- Name
- character
- Name
- Family from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- FAMILY
- Name
- character
- Name
- Genus from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- GENUS
- Name
- character
Identifier
- Name
- Species from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- SPECIES
- Name
- from the current taxonomy of this species from the World Registry of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/
- Name
- Very course taxonomic functional group (Algae, Substrate, Invertebrate, Fish) of species sampled
- Name
- GROUP
- Name
- character
- Description
- Number indicates meters from origin of transect. For swath, it's a range of start to end.
- Name
- Distance from origin of transect that a quadrat or swath was located for the quadrat and swath sampling protocols.
- Name
- QUAD
- Name
- meters
- Name
- Side of transect an observation was taken (I = Inshore, O = Offshore)
- Name
- SIDE
- Name
- character
- Description
- varies by methodology
- Name
- Area sampled by technique (e.g., 1 square meter for a quadrat, 20 square meters for a swath)
- Name
- AREA
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMSQ
- Name
- Square metres
Identifier
- Code
- Abundance of biota
- Name
- Number of organisms counted
- Name
- COUNT
- Name
- number of individuals
- Description
- (YOY = Young of Year, 0-10 = 0-10cm length, 10-50 = 10-50cm length, 50-100 = 50-100cm length, >100 = greater than 100cm in length)
- Name
- Size class of Fish observed
- Name
- FISH.SIZE
- Name
- character or centimiters
- Name
- Notes from diver or data entry on particular features of an observation
- Name
- NOTES
- Name
- character
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- CSV
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - Sampling Site info [keen_sites.csv]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - fish counts by size class [keen_fish.csv]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - Counts of common algae, sessile invertebrates, and demersal fish [keen_quads.csv]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - Counts of rarer algae, sessile invertebrates, and demersal fish [keen_swath.csv]
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - COMPLETE DATA PACKAGE [zipped]
- OnLine resource
-
TRB:KEEN_Obs_Sites
MAP - Sampling Sites
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Site Selection and General Layout Sites are selected by PIs to be in moderately wave exposed locations typical of kelp beds in order to minimize flow artefacts. Within each site, four transects are placed annually according to a stratified random sampling design. Sites run 40m parallel to shore. Multiple methods are used to assess community structure along each transect nested within site. Site properties, including depth, visibility at time of sampling, and the latitude and longitude of transect start and end are included in the site data. Fish surveys The purpose of the Fish sampling is to determine the abundance of common fish that can be counted in a 2-8m (depending on regions – see your regional protocols, as visibility conditions differ between regions) wide area along the 40m transect. Fish sampling is performed by a diver slowly swimming the length of the 40m transect about 1m above the transect line recording the abundance and size class of all fish individuals encountered within a predefined imaginary “cube”. Quadrat Surveys The purpose of Quadrat sampling is to determine the abundance of abundant common invertebrates, algae, and small cryptic fish for sampled sites along a randomly placed transect line. For a 40m transect line, there are 6 sample points 8m apart. Points are: 0m, 8m, 16m, 24m, 32m and 40m alternating onshore and offshore. Band Transects The purpose of the swath sampling is to determine the abundance of common algae, invertebrates, and demersal cryptic fish that can easily be counted in a 1 m-wide area on each side of the 40m transect. As a diver swims, they use a 1m long bar perpendicular to the transect tape and records the abundance of all targeted species encountered in each 40m x 1m area. To facilitate sampling, the abundance of each target species is recorded in each of four subsections: 0-20m Inshore, 21-40m Inshore, 0-20m Offshore, and 21-40m Offshore. Uniform Point Counts Divers swim the length of the 40m transect centering a meter stick perpendicular to the transect tape at each meter interval. The diver records the species that intersect an imaginary vertical line (operationally defined as a distinct “point” ~2mm in diameter) positioned at each end of the meter stick (n = 80 points per transect) Additionally, the substrate type under each point is noted. If there are multiple species encountered under the point (e.g., algae on top of a tunicate), then all species of plant/animal are recorded. Subsurface Kelp Morphometrics The purpose of the kelp morphometrics protocol is to assess the size distribution and biomass of subsurface (e.g., not Macrocystis, Nereoystis, Ecklonia maxima, or other canopy forming kelps – see Canopy Kelp Sampling Protocol) kelps along a transect. Along the transect, divers should swim and collect 1 adult individual of each species of subsurface kelp every 4 meters (n=10 individuals per transect). Relevant dimensions of each species are then measured (e.g., length, width, etc) to estimate size distributions. Canopy Kelp Sampling The purpose of kelp monitoring is to monitor the abundance and size of adult canopy forming kelps, such as Macrocystis pyrifera, Ecklonia maxima, Nereocystis leutkeana, at sites through time. As the observer swims, he/she holds a 1m long bar perpendicular to the transect tape and records data for all adult canopy kelps encountered in the 1m wide area on both sides of the transect tape. Kelp data is recorded in four subsections for each transect, 0-20m Inshore, 21-40m Inshore, 0-20m Offshore and 21-40m Offshore. For each plant encountered, the number of fronds measured 1m above the holdfast and the largest dimension of the holdfast diameter is recorded.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- diver
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/a869dfaa-59a7-4d2f-aaa6-47c2dae5741a
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://catalogue-temperatereefbase.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a869dfaa-59a7-4d2f-aaa6-47c2dae5741a
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-09-26T08:33:29
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-06-15T17:55:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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