Seagrass Site-Level Production on BC Central Coast

10.21966/ezev-0v96

The Seagrass Site-Level Production dataset is a component of Hakai Institute’s Nearshore research and monitoring program, designed to determine the drivers of change in seagrass ecosystems. The overarching objective of Hakai Nearshore research is to investigate the role of habitats and their associated communities, in the face of stress and disturbances from global climate change and local coastal perturbations.

This data package contains seagrass (Zostera marina) primary production observations collected from May 2015 to August 2022, at long-term seagrass meadow monitoring sites on British Columbia’s Central Coast. SCUBA divers collected data from 9 sites annually and 1-3 sites seasonally along permanent 30m transects. Primary productivity data was collected during two concurrent, but separate surveys (i.e., different parameters, methodologies, and sample designs). The data files included in this data package are: 1) ‘Habitat’ surveys, focused on landscape-level habitat variables (e.g., substrate type, subdominant vegetation, adjacent habitat types, seagrass patchiness), and 2) ‘Density’ surveys measuring seagrass specific variables at a finer scale (e.g., seagrass shoot density, and canopy height). Data included here are a subset of the Hakai Institute’s seagrass monitoring dataset.

This data package is freely available to everyone, following the principles of equitable access and benefit sharing. However, we expect all data users to give attribution to the data providers (read our data license) and the use of these data should happen in the light of fair use, i.e.: 1) respect the data providers, and provide helpful feedback on data quality, and 2) communicate and/or collaborate with the providers if you are considering using this dataset for manuscripts or other forms of reporting.

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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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Metadata Reference Date(s) March 22, 2024 (Publication)
June 12, 2024 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) May 27, 2015 (Creation)
February 01, 2022 (Revision)
Frequency of Update As Needed

Responsible Party 1
Name
Monteith, Zachary L. ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
Email
zach.monteith@hakai.org
Role
  • Author
  • Custodian
  • Owner
  • Point of Contact
Responsible Party 2
Name
Manning, Faye ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
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Co Author
Responsible Party 3
Name
Olson, Angeleen M. ORCID logo
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Hakai Institute ROR logo
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  • Co Author
  • Collaborator
Responsible Party 4
Name
Bachen, Krystal ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
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Co Author
Responsible Party 5
Name
Prentice, Carolyn ORCID logo
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Hakai Institute ROR logo
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Responsible Party 6
Name
Van Maanen, Derek
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
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Co Author
Responsible Party 7
Name
Hessing-Lewis, Margot ORCID logo
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
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Principal Investigator
Responsible Party 8
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
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data@hakai.org
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  • Distributor
  • Publisher
  • Resource Provider
Responsible Party 9
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Tula Foundation ROR logo
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Funder

Field Value
Ocean Variables
  • Seagrass cover and composition
  • Other
Scope Dataset
Status On Going
Topic Category oceans
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North Bounding Latitude 52.33530479
South Bounding Latitude 50.8340959
East Bounding Longitude -127.03580726
West Bounding Longitude -128.98931373
Temporal Extent
Begin
2015-05-27
Vertical Extent
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0.0
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10.0
Default Locale English
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Code
https://doi.org/10.21966/ezev-0v96
Projects
  1. Nearshore
Included in Data Catalogue
Included in Data Catalogue 1
Name
Hakai Data Catalogue
Description
Science on the Coastal Margin
URL
https://catalogue.hakai.org