Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Naples Reef, Santa Barbara Channel, study of animal cover of Bugula neritina in units of percent on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Santa Barbara Coastal (SBC) contains animal cover of Bugula neritina measurements in percent units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（乔纳达盆地长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research）站点，美国农业部农业研究局乔纳达实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎洛长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research）站点，美国农业部林务局卢奎洛实验森林）于2004年创立，旨在支持长期生态数据集的收集与分析工作。该项目是一项大型综合研究计划，核心目标为提升长期生态数据的可获取性与应用价值。目前，约有50个州级与联邦资助的研究站点参与并向EcoTrends项目贡献数据，其中涵盖全部26个长期生态研究站点，以及由美国农业部农业研究局（ARS）、美国农业部林务局、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）及众多高校资助的各类研究站点。EcoTrends项目的数据可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取，该门户依托交互式网络应用程序，支持用户持续开展数据整合与访问工作。当前的数据整合工作通过手动与自动处理相结合的方式完成更新，该流程隶属于长期生态研究溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture）。本网络门户由乔纳达长期生态研究站点与长期生态研究网络办公室合作开发。本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal）的数据集包含以百分比为单位的膜孔苔虫（Bugula neritina）盖度测量数据，且已按年度时间尺度进行聚合。