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    Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2016

    Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

    RCCA volunteer citizen scientists conducted 18 visual scuba transects at each monitoring site to survey densities and sizes of ecologically and economically important fish, invertebrate and algal species and to characterize the physical habitats. Transects were 30-meters long and 2-meters wide swaths above the rocky reef substrate. Divers counted and sized key species of fish (35 species), counted invertebrates (33 species) and algae (9 species), and estimated the percent cover of substrate types and vertical relief of the seafloor. Over the baseline monitoring of 2014-2015, RCCA conducted 18 surveys at eight monitoring sites in the NCSR. Three of these sites have been surveyed since 2007. The data from these surveys were analyzed at multiple scales to provide baseline characterization of the kelp forest ecosystems at the time of MPA implementation. We characterized the biological community at the RCCA monitoring sites by summarizing the physical and biological characteristics of each of the sites. These summaries will serve as a reference point in the future as long-term monitoring continues.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date September 8, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 8, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
    Publisher California Ocean Protection Council
    Maintainer
    Identifier 3598e86b-3142-448e-92da-c2aa516caad2
    Data First Published 2018-01-30T19:30:51.476155
    Data Last Modified 2018-05-15T18:24:55.288889
    Category Natural Resources, Water
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 5ee417f3-56d6-4bcc-adeb-6462dce64697
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5a78e2acff3f501432a2d10c4686d80c3c70df5838667bf6f28dceaf28f8f943
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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