Data Package Metadata View Summary

Santa Barbara Channel Marine BON: Integrated fish

General Information

Data Package:
Local Identifier:	edi.5.2
Title:	Santa Barbara Channel Marine BON: Integrated fish
Alternate Identifier:	doi:10.6073/pasta/1345f0148e6dfe4df9065e223b4dd783
Abstract:	The Santa Barbara Channel MBON tracks long-term patterns in species abundance and diversity. This dataset contains counts of fish (including cryptic fish, which are deliberately sought out) produced by integrating data from four contributing projects working in the kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, USA. This dataset includes three entities, two data tables and R code. The main data table contains counts of organisms, the area over which that number was counted and the height above the bottom. Data were collected by human observation (divers using SCUBA) during regular surveys. The column labeled “count” records the number of organisms found in each plot/transect at a given timestamp.. A second data table contains place names and geolocation for sampling sites. Information is sufficient for the calculation of fish density, which is left to the user. Sample R-code is included (third entity) to illustrate generation of a basic table of areal density by taxa and sampling site. See Methods for information on integration and data processing The four contributing projects are two research projects: the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (SBC LTER) and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), and the kelp forest monitoring program of the Santa Barbara Channel National Park, and the San Nicolas Island monitoring program supported by USGS. Together, these projects have recorded data for more than 200 species at approximately 100 sites on both the mainland coast and on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. Sampling began in 1982 and is ongoing.
Publication Date:	2017-05-20

Time Period

Begin:

1981-10-20

End:

2016-12-14

People and Organizations
Contact:	Miller, Robert (SBC MBON) [ email ]
Creator:	Miller, Robert
Creator:	Rassweiler, Andrew
Creator:	Reed, Daniel
Creator:	Lafferty, Kevin
Creator:	Kui, Li
Creator:	O'Brien, Margaret

Data Entities
Data Table Name:	SBCMBON integrated fish
Description:	Fish survey using RDFC,crypticfish, and regular fish survey methods
Data Table Name:	SBCMBON site geolocation
Description:	Geographic locations of SBCMBON sites
Other Name:	SBCMBON fish density R code
Description:	Fish density calcualtion at a site level

Detailed Metadata

Data Entities

Data Table


Data:	https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/5/2/91615b931c54c3aefedd0b048b22344c
Name:	SBCMBON integrated fish
Description:	Fish survey using RDFC,crypticfish, and regular fish survey methods
Number of Records:	3872288
Number of Columns:	19

Table Structure

Object Name:

SBCMBON_integrated_fish_20170520.csv

Size:

629994562 byte

Authentication:

0e1f6a96b7ec1822cdf792c986c163a3 Calculated By MD5

Text Format:

Number of Header Lines:

Record Delimiter:

\r\n

Orientation:

column

Simple Delimited:

Field Delimiter:	,
Quote Character:	"

Table Column Descriptions

Site ID

Subsite ID

SBC MBON Project-taxon code

Data source

Sampling method

Sample subtype

Date

Transect ID

Replicate ID

Area

Height

Count

Authoritative Taxon Code

Authoritative Taxon Code Source

Taxon name

Site name

Subsite name

Latitude

Longitude

Column Name:

site_id

subsite_id

proj_taxon_id

data_source

sample_method

sample_subtype

date

transect_id

replicate_id

area

height

count

auth_taxon_id

auth_name

taxon_name

site_name

subsite_name

latitude

longitude

Definition:

ID of the site, within the data source (assigned by SBC MBON)

Identifier for the subsite

Code assigned by SBC MBON for this taxon from this data source (project)

Source project for this data

Sampling method

Water column a fish survey located

Date of survey

Identifier for the transect

Identifier for the replicate

Area covered by the survey

Height (above bottom) the survey covered

Number of organisms counted

Taxon code assigned by an authoritative source

Name of the athority or registry assigning the Authoritative Taxon Code

Taxon name, usually species binomial or other taxon name

The site, as named by each project

Survey region within a site

Site latitude

Site longitude

Storage Type:

string

date

string

float

string

float

Measurement Type:

nominal

dateTime

nominal

ratio

nominal

ratio

Measurement Values Domain:

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

[a-z]-[a-z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]

Allowed Values and Definitions

Enumerated Domain

Code Definition

Code	kfm
Definition	Kelp forest monitoring program of the Santa Barbara Channel National Park
Source

Code Definition

Code	lter
Definition	Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Source

Code Definition

Code	pisco
Definition	Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans
Source

Code Definition

Code	sni
Definition	San Nicolas Island monitoring program
Source

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Format	yyyy-mm-dd
Precision

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Unit	squareMeter
Precision	1
Type	real

Unit	meter
Precision	1
Type	real

Unit	number
Precision	1
Type	integer

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

Missing Value Code:

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Code	NA
Expl	value not recorded or not available

Accuracy Report:

Accuracy Assessment:

Coverage:

Methods:

Data Table


Data:	https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/5/2/5701ed5671672e7364cca8c4dffbceae
Name:	SBCMBON site geolocation
Description:	Geographic locations of SBCMBON sites
Number of Records:	121
Number of Columns:	5

Table Structure

Object Name:

SBCMBON_site_geolocation_20170520.csv

Size:

6183 byte

Authentication:

fb414958717088ab9210cac28e52ade7 Calculated By MD5

Text Format:

Number of Header Lines:

Record Delimiter:

\r\n

Orientation:

column

Simple Delimited:

Field Delimiter:	,
Quote Character:	"

Table Column Descriptions

Site ID

geographic location

Data source

Latitude

Longitude

Column Name:

site_id

geolocation

data_source

latitude

longitude

Definition:

ID of the site, within the data source (assigned by SBC MBON)

Geographic location of the site, such as San Rosa Island or Mainland

Source project for this data

Site latitude

Site longitude

Storage Type:

string

float

Measurement Type:

nominal

ratio

Measurement Values Domain:

Definition

any text

Definition

any text

Definition

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

Unit	degree
Precision	1e-04
Type	real

Missing Value Code:

Code	NA
Expl	NA

Code	NA
Expl	NA

Code	NA
Expl	NA

Code	NA
Expl	NA

Code	NA
Expl	NA

Accuracy Report:

Accuracy Assessment:

Coverage:

Methods:

Non-Categorized Data Resource

Name:

SBCMBON fish density R code

Entity Type:

R code

Description:

Fish density calcualtion at a site level

Physical Structure Description:

Object Name:

SBCMBON_fish_density_R_20170520.R

Size:

1442 byte

Authentication:

f1fde2c4506e41843e37d755ca4995f7 Calculated By MD5

Text Format:

Number of Header Lines:

Record Delimiter:

\r\n

Orientation:

column

Simple Delimited:

Field Delimiter:	,
Quote Character:	"

Data:

https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/5/2/c884a6414d7f0b009ce210f1f503f05b

Data Package Usage Rights

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
Essential Biodiversity Variables	Population Abundance
Darwin Core Terms	Occurrence : OrganismQuantity, Taxon : ScientificName, BasisofRecord : HumanObservation
(No thesaurus)	fish, crypticfish, roving diver fish count, visual fish

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package

Description:

The integrated dataset combines four monitoring projects in the kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, USA. The surveying methods, raw data, and meta data files for each project can be found online.

Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (LTER): http://sbc.lternet.edu

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO): http://data.piscoweb.org/

Kelp forest monitoring (KFM): http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/245/

San Nicolas Island monitoring (SNI): http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/244/

The data integration process includes data cleaning, column standardization, species validation, and data merging. The data cleaning was processed in seven steps: 1. Select the sites located within the Santa Barbara Channel; 2. Separate the biological survey data into three categories: fish survey, quad and swath count, and benthic cover; 3. Assign survey area to the corresponding record for each survey, and calculate the total point count for the benthic cover data; 4. Add life stage (adult and juvenile) information to the survey record; 5. Calculate plot average in cases where more than one diver surveyed each experimental plot (e.g. KFM roving diver fish count); 6. Remove redundant rows; 7. Convert date format into: YYYY-MM-DD.

After the cleaning process, the designated columns (for the integrated dataset) were selected and standardized indices were generated for site, subsite, transect, replicate plot, and taxon. Species’ scientific name were run through an online data base http://www.marinespecies.org/ to obtain an authoritative name and taxon information. Finally, the standardized-format table from the four projects were merged into one csv file for each survey category.

People and Organizations

Creators:

Individual:

Robert Miller

Email Address:

miller@msi.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Andrew Rassweiler

Email Address:

rassweiler@bio.fsu.edu

Individual:

Daniel Reed

Email Address:

dan.reed@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Kevin Lafferty

Email Address:

kevin.lafferty@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Individual:

Li Kui

Email Address:

lkui@ucsb.edu

Individual:

Margaret O'Brien

Email Address:

margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu

Contacts:

Individual:

Robert Miller

Organization:

SBC MBON

Address:

UCSB,

Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

Email Address:

miller@msi.ucsb.edu

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period

Begin:

1981-10-20

End:

2016-12-14

Geographic Region:

Description:

Nearshore reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel and Channel Islands, California, USA

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	34.87315	Southern:	32.8
Western:	-120.6344833	Eastern:	-118.4
Altitude Minimum:	-27	Altitude Maximum:	0

Project

Other Metadata

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