Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate Shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: 31.432210
Central longitude: -81.340620
Duration: 20 years, from 2000 to 2020

1171 records

10 distinct species

Across the time series Littoraria is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

This data set includes long-term observational data on mollusc species abundance and size distribution at 10 Georgia Coastal Ecosystems marsh sites used for annual plant and invertebrate population monitoring. Infaunal and epifaunal molluscs were hand-collected from within quadrats of known area in mid-marsh and creekbank zones (n = 4 quadrats per zone) at all sites annually in October. Molluscs were also collected from an additional high marsh Juncus zone (n = 4 quadrats) at several sites beginning in 2009. The molluscs were returned to the lab, preserved in ethanol, identified and counted to determine species abundance and density in each plot. Here we included only samples taken in 0.5 sqm quadrats.

Citation(s)

@Dataset{BioTIME_cit805, Study_id = {551}, Citation_id = {805}, Author = {{Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project} and M. Alber}, Publisher = {Environmental Data Initiative}, Title = {Long-term Mollusc Population Abundance and Size Data from the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Fall Marsh Monitoring Program ver 14}, Year = {2022}, Doi = {10.6073/pasta/651d603e2930d7ff608d7325230418e8}, Url = {https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-gce.605.14}, Urldate = {2023-08-21}, Version = {14} }