Dataset title: Global Climate Change Impacts on the Vegetation and Fauna of Mangrove Forested Ecosystems in Florida (FCE): Nekton Mass from March 2000 to April 2004 Dataset ID: LT_TDCS_McIvor_001 Research type: Long-term Dataset Creator Name: Dr. Carole McIvor Position: Project Collaborator Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program Address: U.S. Geological Survery Florida Integrated Science Center 600 4th Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA Phone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3022 Fax: 727-803-2032 Email: carole_mcivor@usgs.gov URL: http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ Metadata Provider Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148 Miami, FL 33199 USA Phone: 305-348-6054 Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: https://fcelter.fiu.edu Dataset Abstract Bottomless lift nets are buried within the mangrove forest floor and raised remotely on slack high spring tides to enclose a 6m2 area. As the tide ebbs, fishes retreat into a subtidal refuge cleared when the tide has fallen. Three replicate nets have been sampled at 3 locations along a salinity gradient on Shark River for 4 years. Small resident forage fish and grass shrimp dominate the collections. Exotic species and estuarine transient species that use the estuary as a nursery are rare within the assemblage of fishes that routinely use the flooded forest. Geographic Coverage Study Extent Description The Study Extent of this dataset includes the Shark River research sites within Everglades National Park, South Florida Bounding Coordinates Geographic description: SRSMc-S2 West bounding coordinate: -80.968 East bounding coordinate: -80.968 North bounding coordinate: 25.409 South bounding coordinate: 25.409 Geographic description: SRSMc-S3 West bounding coordinate: -81.077 East bounding coordinate: -81.077 North bounding coordinate: 25.365 South bounding coordinate: 25.365 Geographic description: SRSMc-S4 West bounding coordinate: -81.06 East bounding coordinate: -81.06 North bounding coordinate: 25.424 South bounding coordinate: 25.424 Temporal Coverage Start Date: 2000-03-10 End Date: 2004-04-07 Data Table Entity Name: LT_TDCS_McIvor_001.csv Entity Description: Global Climate Change Impacts on the Vegetation and Fauna of Mangrove Forested Ecosystems in Florida (FCE): Nekton Mass from March 2000 to April 2004 Object Name: LT_TDCS_McIvor_001.csv Data Format Number of Header Lines: 1 Attribute Orientation: column Field Delimiter: , Number of Records: Attributes Attribute Name: SITENAME Attribute Label: sitename Attribute Definition: Name of Collection Site Storage Type: text Measurement Scale: text Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: Net_Number Attribute Label: ID Number Attribute Definition: Net ID Number Storage Type: ordinal Measurement Scale: text Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: Date Attribute Label: date Attribute Definition: Sample Collection date Storage Type: datetime Measurement Scale: Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: SpeciesName Attribute Label: species Attribute Definition: Nekton Species Name Storage Type: text Measurement Scale: text Missing Value Code: -9999 (Value will never be recorded) Attribute Name: Nekton_mass Attribute Label: mass Attribute Definition: Nekton Mass Storage Type: data Measurement Scale: Units: gram Precision: 0.01 Number Type: real Missing Value Code: -9999.00 (Value will never be recorded) Attribute Name: Nekton_number Attribute Label: count Attribute Definition: Nekton Count Storage Type: data Measurement Scale: Units: dimensionless Precision: 1 Number Type: real Missing Value Code: -9999 (Value will never be recorded) Methods Sampling Description 3 sites, one up-river (SRSMc-S2), one mid-river (SRSMc-S4), and one down-river (SRSMc-S3), with 3 nets at each site. Three permanent plots per site, nets folded into aluminum trenches set in the forest floor and deployed remotely from boardwalks. Sampled every two months (ideally), on the highest tides for that month (full moon or new moon). Method Step Description 2 x 3 m2 bottomless lift nets (Rozas 1992, Bottomless lift net for sampling nekton on intertidal marshes. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 89: 287-92.); K-S test for length-frequency dist., RM ANOVA for site differences Instrumentation YSI Meter model NUM 85/10 Quality Control Final validation when necessary done on identifications by ichthyological taxonomist specialist Dr. Ed Matheson, FMRI. Electronic files are checked against raw data; all specimens archived; reliance on all available expertise within lab. 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Dataset Keywords Everglades National Park FCE Florida Coastal Everglades LTER ecological research long-term monitoring Shark River Slough Harney River mangrove forest tidal inundation nekton lift net nekton mass community structure fishes crustaceans biomass climate ecosystems species Disturbance Data Submission Date: 2005-02-21 Maintenance knb-lter-fce.1170.5: Updated metadata; enabled public data access, and changed file extension from .txt to .csv (no changes made to contents of data file); data collection is complete, and no new data will be appended. Dataset Contact Name: Carole McIvor Position: South Florida Wetland Ecosystems Lab Field Technican Organization: U.S. Geological Survery Address: U.S. Geological Survery Florida Integrated Science Center 600 4th Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA Phone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3022 Fax: 727-803-2032 Email: carole_mcivor@usgs.gov URL: http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ Position: Information Manager Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148 Miami, FL 33199 USA Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: https://fcelter.fiu.edu Project permits ENP Permit No.s: 1999-068; 2000-048; EVER-2001-SCI-0067; EVER-2003-SCI-0066 Dataset Submission Date 2005-02-21 Data Submission Notes Standard taxonomic fish and crustacean keys for SW Florida species; voucher specimens ID'd by Dr. Ed Matheson, FMRI, taxonomic specialist. Archived samples are either frozen at -15oC or fixed in 10% formalin and preserved in 70% ETOH. Information Management Notes This is a long-term trophic dynamics and community structural dataset and subsequent data wil be appended.This data file combines files LT_TDCS_McIvor_001 (original & v1). The new PASTA file is LT_TDCS_McIvor_001. The FCE program is discontinuing its practice of versioning data as of March 2013.