Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Channel, study of plant cover of Gigartina corymbifera 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 plant cover of Gigartina corymbifera measurements in percent units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目由德布拉·彼得斯博士（约拿盆地长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER）网，美国农业部农业研究局约拿实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎略长期生态研究网，美国农业部林业局卢奎略实验森林）于2004年创立，旨在支撑长期生态数据集的收集与分析工作。本项目为大型综合研究项目，核心目标是提升长期数据的可及性与应用水平。目前已有约50个州级与联邦资助的研究站点参与并为EcoTrends项目贡献数据，其中包含全部26个长期生态研究站点，以及由美国农业部农业研究服务局（USDA-ARS）、美国农业部林业局、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）与众多高校资助的站点。EcoTrends项目的数据集可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取。该网络门户依托交互式Web应用程序，支持用户持续开展数据整合与访问工作。持续进行的数据整合工作依托长期生态研究网溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture, PASTA），通过手动与自动两种处理方式完成更新。本网络门户由约拿LTER站点与LTER网络办公室合作开发。本次提供的圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal, SBC）数据集包含以百分比为单位的杉叶蜈蚣藻（Gigartina corymbifera）盖度测量数据，且已按年尺度完成聚合。