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MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Water Column: Particle sedimentation on the Forereef, Back Reef and Fringing Reef
This data package contains measurements of the sedimentation rate of particulate matter to the seafloor on the forereef, backreef and fringing reef of the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia, during 2 to 4 seasons per year from August 2005 to January 2011. Measurements include estimates of the accumulation rate of particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate organic nitrogen (PON), and dry mass. Samples were collected with 2 different types of sediment traps. From August, 2005 to January 2008 samples were collected using plastic door matting placed in plastic trays 1 cm deep and 195.5 cm2 in area. From January, 2008 to January, 2011 samples were collected in plastic tubes 5.2 cm inside diameter and 17.5 cm high (21.26 cm2). During each sampling period 3 replicate traps were placed at random on the seafloor and retrieved approximately 24 hours later. See caveats to data interpretation in methods discussion.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Water Column: Zooplankton Composition and Abundance
This data package contains zooplankton abundance and taxonomic composition measured at 5 stations on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia: Forereef, Backreef, Fringing Reef, Cooks Bay, and Oceanic (5 km due north) from 2005 to 2010. Day time measurements over the reef were taken with a 30 cm, 200 μm mesh plankton net equipped with a slow speed General Oceanics Model 2030 flow meter. Nets were swum horizontally by a diver 1 m above the bottom at Forereef, Backreef and Fringing Reef sites. Daytime sampling at the Oceanic and Cooks Bay sites consisted of 0-50 m, 0-100 or 0-30 m vertical tows with a 30 cm, 200 μm mesh plankton net equipped with a standard General Oceanics Model 2030 flow meter. Nighttime sampling and some daytime sampling was done at the Forereef, Backreef and Fringing Reef sites using automated plankton pumps equipped with flow meters and 200 μm internal nets (described in Alldredge and King, 2009). These pumps sampled 75 cm above the bottom for 1 to 1.5 hours beginning at 11 pm local time. Nocturnal zooplankton abundance was sensitive to lunar phase. On some sampling dates pump samples were taken at the same depth in duplicate, or at several different depths simultaneously. The zooplankton time series was terminated when it became clear that the variability in zooplankton abundance over just 50 cm difference in depth over the reef was greater than the variability seasonally or even day to night (Alldredge and King, 2009). Alldredge AL and J M King 2009. Near-surface enrichment of zooplankton over a shallow back reef: Implications for coral reef planktivores. Coral Reefs 28:895-908. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0534-4
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Population Dynamics: Adult threespot dascyllus and their host anemones, ongoing since 1992
These data describe the abundance of adult-stage three-spot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus), a planktivorous damselfish, and their juvenile microhabitat, the sea anemone Heteractis magnifica. Surveys were begun in 1992 and have been conducted two to four times annually by the same observer in the lagoons of the north shore of the island of Moorea in French Polynesia.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Community Dynamics: Physical Characteristics of Branching Acropora Patches and Species Richness and Abundances of Associated Fishes
Branching corals, like many in the genus Acropora, provide structurally complex habitats for reef fishes and other organisms. Fluctuations in the abundance, distribution and characteristics of staghorn Acroporid corals may contribute to changes in the abundance and species composition of reef fishes due to changes in the availability of shelter habitat and food. Farming damselfishes of the genus Stegastes occur in high abundances in staghorn thickets and actively defend food and nest space against organisms that threaten these resources. Here I examine the value of staghorn thickets as habitat for fishes, and how the presence of territorial farming damselfishes may influence the assemblage of fishes that associate with staghorn corals. Surveys of 185 Acropora pulchra thickets located in the lagoons surrounding the island of Moorea, French Polynesia revealed 85 species of fish from 25 families. Total fish abundance and species richness values ranged from no fish on a thicket to a high of 275 individuals and 26 species. Thicket area was the most important characteristic in explaining variation in attributes of the fish assemblage among staghorn thickets, with other characteristics explaining little of the species composition or trophic structure. Behavioral observations revealed that farming damselfishes were most aggressive toward corallivores, herbivores, and egg predators, while they ignored most carnivores and omnivores. Despite this pattern, I observed positive covariance between Stegastes and the group of fishes that elicited the strongest aggressive response when the effect of thicket area was removed, suggesting these fishes remain drawn to the resources produced or enhanced by Stegastes on A. pulchra thickets.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Demersal Zooplankton Composition and Abundance
This data package contains demersal zooplankton abundance and taxonomic composition measured at 3 stations on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia: Forereef, Backreef and Fringing Reef from 2005 to 2010. Demersal zooplankton emerging from sand or rubble substrates on the reef during the night were captured in 8 inverted funnel traps placed on the substrate in the late afternoon and retrieved the following morning. Traps were made of 200 μm mesh netting with the opening to the cod end located 18 cm above the bottom. Four traps, each covering 0.0615 m2 of substrate, were combined to obtain one sample for counting. The table reports means of 2 replicates each containing 4 combined traps. Traps placed over sand were pushed into the substrate. However, traps over rubble had numerous gaps along their bases allowing some contamination from the water column. Data are expressed as number of animals emerging per square meter of bottom.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Sand Flat Sampling: Sand Infaunal Surveys
These data represent abundances of infaunal invertebrates in lagoonal sand flats along the north shore of Moorea. Surveys were conducted once along five transects in the Vaipahu lagoon within the LTER 1 study site. The number of individuals from distinct invertebrate taxa were counted from 1815 cubic centimeter sand cores taken at varying distances from a large patch reef. The data also include sand grain size distributions.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Seawater pH, Temperature and Depth Time Series from Bottom-mounted Sensors on the Fringing Reef, January-March 2012
Bottom-mounted instrumentation (SeaFET, Seabird thermisters, Hobo water level data loggers) sampled for 8 weeks on the fringing reef of Moorea Island, French Polynesia at site LTER Fringe 1. Sampling began in January 2012. The instruments were secured to a cement piling at 3.3 meters depth and 0.7 meters above the sandy bottom. The SeaFET recorded voltages from a thermistor and pH electrodes at a 10-minute sampling interval. Discrete seawater samples were collected using a Niskin bottle during the deployment; pH, salinity, and total alkalinity of this sample were measured to calculate seawater pH (total scale) from raw SeaFET data as well as other carbonate chemistry parameters. Adjacent to the SeaFET were two thermistors and two HOBO® water level data loggers, synchronized with the SeaFET to simultaneously record temperature and depth.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Pocillopora Abundance, Cover and Recruitment data for Tsounis and Edmunds 2016 Peer J
The dataset contains stony coral cover percent and Pocillopora cover obtained in on the north shore of Moorea in 2010 and 2014/2015 using photoqudrats. A subset of the data were obtained by counting adults and juveniles in situ using quadrats. Recruitment rates were quantified using settlement tiles. These data support the publication Tsounis and Edmunds, The potential for self-seeding by the coral Pocillopora spp. In Moorea, French Polynesia, Peer J, 2016.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Data for figures in Doo, et al., Ocean acidification effects on in situ coral reef metabolism, Scientific Reports, 2019
These data result from a Free Ocean CO2 Enrichment (FOCE). Data include net community calcification (NCC), net community production (NCP), and net ecosystem calcification (NEC) for the figures in Doo, Edmunds and Cparpenter, Ocean acidification effects on in situ coral reef metabolism, Scientific Reports, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48407-7. Data for Figure 2A describe the 24-h NCC collected in the in situ SCoRe-FOCE. Data for Figures 2B and 2C describe the offset of NCC of the high CO2 treatment from ambient collected in the in situ SCoRe-FOCE. Data for Figure 3 describe the correlation of NCP to NCC collected in the in situ SCoRe-FOCE. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2018). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.
MCR LTER: Coral Reefs: KM14-16 Cruise BioGeoChemistry
Data products from biogeochemical analyses of bottle sample data collected during the July 2014 UNOLS cruise on the Kilo-Moana around Moorea.We sought to resolve the extent, variability, and magnitude of productivity enrichment around a high tropical island consistent with the phenomenon of an Island Mass Effect (IME). Key biogeochemical constituents and physical oceanographic parameters were measured offshore over the upper 500 m from July 27 to August 7, 2014 around the Society Island of Moorea in French Polynesia in association with the nearshore measurements of the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research program. High-resolution synoptic sampling in a rectangular grid around the island revealed vertical and horizontal patterns in hydrographic conditions, inorganic nutrients, rates of productivity, and concentrations of organic matter that are characteristic of oligotrophic gyre ecosystems. This study was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants OCE-1236905 to MCR-LTER, OCE-1538428 to CC, OCE-1538393 to CN and OCE-1535203 to JL, and NASA grant NNX11AE87G (The Science of Terra and Aqua) to SM. Data products biogeochemical analyses of bottle sample data during the July 2014 UNOLS cruise on the Kilo-Moana around Moorea.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Branches and plates of Porites rus insensitive to OA and warming. Lenz and Edmunds, JEMBE 2017
Data in support of Lenz & Edmunds, JEMBE 2017. [doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2016.10.002] This study tested the hypothesis that intraspecific morphological plasticity within a scleractinian coral elicits differential responses to elevated PCO2 and temperature. In Mo'orea, French Polynesia, two short-term laboratory experiments (21 and 14 days) were conducted to test the effects of PCO2 (400 vs. 700 µatm), and PCO2 (400 vs 1000 µatm) combined with temperature (27.0 vs. 29.8 C), on branches and plates of Porites rus. Experiments employed two irradiances (~1000 vs 200 µmol photons m-2 s-1), which characterized the microenvironments on the shallow fringing reefs where branching and plating morphologies are common, respectively. Calcification of both morphologies was insensitive to PCO2, as well as the combined effects of elevated PCO2 and temperature. Mean calcification rates were faster in high light than in low light for both morphologies, and biomass was greater in plates than branches in all treatments. Together, our results suggest P. rus is robust to increased PCO2 and high temperature within the constraints of the treatments applied. Morphological plasticity in this species does not mediate physiological resistance to low pH and high temperature. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2020). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.
MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Coral larval data in support of Rivest and Hofmann 2015 JEMBE
In this study, lipid utilization and biological parameters of planula larvae of the cauliflower coral Pocillopora damicornis under future ocean conditions were examined using manipulative experiments. For the first 24 h following their release, planulae were cultured in seawater controlled to mimic a future ocean scenario (1030 μatm pCO2, 30.7 °C) as well as present-day, ambient ocean conditions (475 μatm pCO2, 28.1 °C; confirmed by autonomous sensors deployed at our study site). Abundance of wax ester, triacylglycerol, and phospholipids as well as traits of physiological status (total lipid, total protein, symbiont density, larval area, and larval length) were measured before and after incubations. These data are published in E.B. Rivest and G.E. Hofmann. 2015. Effects of temperature and pCO2 on lipid use and biological parameters of planulae of Pocillopora damicornis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 473:43-52. These data are related to dataset knb-lter-mcr.5014, MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Seawater pH, Temperature and Depth Time Series from Bottom-mounted Sensors on the Fringing Reef, January-March 2012
Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)
Water quality measurements taken near the island of Moorea, French Polynesia, as part of the Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER).
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