Description
Long-Term Monitoring and Biodiversity Surveys done by the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) occur throughout the year at sites ranging from Southeast Alaska to Mexico. Long Term Monitoring surveys assess within-site community change over time, while Biodiversity surveys were designed to capture among-site patterns of community structure (abundance and spatial distribution of species). In combination, the long-term, targeted species approach and the biodiversity surveys provide a wealth of information about the structure and dynamics of rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific Coast of North America.
This metadata record documents the Swath surveys for the MARINe Biodiversity Surveys. Biodiversity surveys are comprised of four components, all sampled along the same transects: (1) point contact estimates of intertidal cover and substrate characteristics, (2) swath transects to estimate the density of seastars and abalone, (3) quadrat sampling to estimate the density of mobile invertebrates, and (4) topography (elevation relative to mean low low water (mllw)). Selected sites are resampled on a 3-5 year cycle. A site is defined as a contiguous rocky bench of at least 30m. Swath sampling consists of recording the number of seastars and abalone on eleven 2m wide transects of variable length extending from the upper intertidal to the low intertidal.
Please note that species of concern have been removed from all public datasets, as well as data from sites funded by the National Park Service (NPS) and the United States Navy. For a comprehensive dataset, please contact the data set owner(s). For more information about the data described in this metadata record, please visit pacificrockyintertidal.org.
The long-term California MPA boundary and project info tables referenced in this dataset can be found as a separate dataset here: https://opc.dataone.org/view/doi:10.25494/P6V884
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 631 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe), Partnership Interdisciplinary Studies Coastal Oceans for of (PISCO), & Pete Raimondi. (2023). MARINe/PISCO: Intertidal: MARINe Coastal Biodiversity Surveys: Swath Surveys Summarized. PISCO MN. doi:10.6085/AA/marine_cbs.11.6.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fdcdc447-2032-4edf-9519-0ec89ae1b9c5. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Ocean; Intertidal Processes; Intertidal Zone; Marine Biology; Marine Invertebrates; Marine Plants; Marine Habitat; Biosphere; Aquatic Habitats; Coastal Habitat; Baseline MPA monitoring; Long-term MPA monitoring; Marine Protected Area (MPA); Biological data; Central Coast; North Central Coast; North Coast; South Coast; Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe); Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO); Algae; Invertebrates; Community Survey Data; Intertidal Data; Intertidal Community Survey Data; Intertidal Coastal Biodiversity Survey; SWAT Survey; PISCO; Temperate Rocky Reef; Intertidal; Swath Survey; Density; Mobile Invertebrate; Seastar; Abalone; Alaska; British Columbia; Canada; Washington; Oregon; California; Baja California; Mexico; Sonora; Samplingevent; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| MARINe/PISCO: Intertidal: DataONE: MARINe Coastal Biodiversity Surveys: Swath Surveys Summarized | http://doi.org/10.6085/AA/marine_cbs.11.6 UTF-8 text and EML files |
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Contacts
- Originator
- Point Of Contact
- Research Associate
- Point Of Contact
- Research Associate
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3806-5542
Geographic Coverage
Biodiversity Surveys are done at sites ranging from southeast Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [33.385, -135.323], North East [57.575, -118.475] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Animals from intertidal rocky shores.
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata |
| Class | Polyplacophora, Ophiuroidea, Malacostraca, Asteroidea |
| Order | Chitonida, Forcipulatida, Spinulosida, Decapoda, Valvatida |
| Family | Heliasteridae, Asteropseidae, Goniasteridae, Echinasteridae, Asterinidae, Ophidiasteridae, Palinuridae, Asteriidae, Acanthochitonidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2001-02-08 / 2021-07-26 |
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Project Data
MARINe is a partnership of agencies, universities, and private groups who conduct long-term monitoring of rocky intertidal ecosystems on the US West Coast
| Title | Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network |
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| Identifier | MARINe |
| Funding | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, National Park Service, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, State of California Ocean Protection Council, United States Navy |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
The distribution and abundance of these organisms are recorded from a two meter wide band centered over each transect line from high to low zone. This band is searched for all seastars and abalone. For a detailed description of the methods, see this document: https://marine.ucsc.edu/biodiversityprotocol.pdf
| Study Extent | Swath sampling consists of recording the number of seastars and other large invertebrates in a two meter wide band centered over each transect. The location (to the nearest half meter along the transect), number, and species names are recorded. Intertidal surveys are comprised of four components, all sampled along the same transects: (1) point contact estimates of intertidal cover and substrate characteristics, (2) swath transects to estimate the density of seastars and abalone, (3) quadrat sampling to estimate the density of mobile invertebrates, and (4) topography (elevation relative to mean low low water (mllw)). Please note that these data do not reflect all species present in a given area. In addition, the information in this Data Set is limited by the methods described in our survey protocols. For more information, see pacificrockyintertidal.org. |
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Method step description:
- For a detailed description of the methods, see this document: https://marine.ucsc.edu/biodiversityprotocol.pdf
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.6085/AA/marine_cbs.11.6 |
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| fdcdc447-2032-4edf-9519-0ec89ae1b9c5 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/30884b6c-e8e1-453c-af20-7ed8318489c6 | |
| https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=marine_cbs_swath_surveys |