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Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests, California Sout...
Reef Check California has surveyed rocky reefs and kelp forests in southern California since 2006 and has up to nine years of data from the MLPA South Coast Study Region (SCSR).... -
Adult California sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) counts at long-term subtid...
The data represent total counts of adult California sheephead from six long-term sites at San Nicolas Island, CA between fall 1981 and spring 2018. At each site counts were made... -
Benthic kelp and invertebrate counts, California sheephead abundance, substra...
Four data sets are included here to aid in assessing the influence of substrate complexity on kelp forest ecosystem stability. One data set consists of counts of a suite of... -
Digital images of color-infrared photographic slides of kelp canopies taken d...
The dynamic and sometimes vulnerable nature of the California coastal kelp resource, critical as habitat and food for hundreds of related species, required the development of... -
Benthic kelp and invertebrate counts, California sheephead abundance, substra...
Four data sets are included here to aid in assessing the influence of substrate complexity on kelp forest ecosystem stability. One data set consists of counts of a suite of... -
Benthic kelp and invertebrate counts, California sheephead abundance, substra...
Four data sets are included here to aid in assessing the influence of substrate complexity on kelp forest ecosystem stability. One data set consists of counts of a suite of... -
Benthic kelp and invertebrate counts, California sheephead abundance, substra...
Four data sets are included here to aid in assessing the influence of substrate complexity on kelp forest ecosystem stability. One data set consists of counts of a suite of... -
Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests, California Nort...
RCCA volunteer citizen scientists conducted 18 visual scuba transects at each monitoring site to survey densities and sizes of ecologically and economically important fish,... -
San Nicolas Island benthic transect densities 1980-2019
These data represent density per square meter of individuals of a suite of kelp and macroinvertebrate species on fixed 10-meter by 2-meter benthic transects on permanent... -
Dissolved Oxygen Measurements - Van Damme State Park - 2017-2022
Dissolved oxygen measurements at Van Damme State Park: September 28, 2017 through , June 6, 2022. This data set contains water temperature and dissolved oxygen measurements,... -
Kelp Forest Transect Surveys - Sonoma and Mendocino County, Northern Californ...
Kelp Forest Transect Surveys conducted along 30x2m transects on rocky reef habitats from 0-60 ft depth in Sonoma and Mendocino counties, Northern California. The data set... -
San Nicolas Island benthic quadrat cover 1980-2019
These data represent estimated percent cover of macroalgae, invertebrates, and exposed substrate within fixed quadrats. Benthic cover data were collected in 1 square meter...