barnacles: Barnacle distribution on coral reefs

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Barnacle distribution on coral reefs

Description

Counts and density of barnacles on coral reefs in the Flower Garden Banks (Gulf of Mexico) and in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Usage

barnacles

Format

A data frame with 134 observations of 8 variables.

location

Either FGB (Flower Garden Banks) or USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands).

site

Specific site within location.

coral_cover

Percentage of reef covered in coral.

depth

Depth of reef (meters).

deep

Factor with two values, deep or shallow.

count

Number of barnacles.

area

Area where barnacles were counted in square meters.

barnacle_density

Barnacles per square meter.

Details

From the authors: "Bioerosion, the removal of calcium carbonate from coral frameworks by living organisms, influences a variety of reef features, from their topographic complexity to the net balance of carbonate budgets. Little is known, however, about how macroborers, which bore into reef substrates leaving traces greater than 0.1 mm diameter, are distributed across coral reefs, particularly reef systems with high (>50%) stony coral cover or at mesophotic depths (≥30 m)."

Source

Maher RL, Johnston MA, Brandt ME, Smith TB, Correa AMS (2018) Depth and coral cover drive the distribution of a coral macroborer across two reef systems. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199462. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199462

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