PISCO UCSB Subtidal Fish Recruitment Data

This metadata record documents the recruitment monitoring study for PISCO subtidal. The dataset describes the recruitment of juvenile fishes to artificial substrate from 2000-2018 at sites around the Santa Barbara Channel and Northern Channel Islands. Artificial collectors known as Standardized Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes (SMURFs) were sampled approximately every two weeks to provide a time series of recruitment patterns independent of the availability and quality of nearby habitat. The main purpose of this study is to measure spatial and temporal patterns of juvenile fish settlement to understand the effects of oceanography and anthropogenic influence. See Methods for more details.

本元数据记录记载了PISCO潮下带鱼类招募监测研究的相关内容。本数据集记录了2000年至2018年间，圣巴巴拉海峡（Santa Barbara Channel）及北海峡群岛（Northern Channel Islands）周边各站点处，幼鱼向人工基质的补充情况。研究采用被称为鱼类招募标准化监测单元（Standardized Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes，缩写SMURFs）的人工采集器，约每两周开展一次采样，以此生成不受周边栖息地可获取性与质量干扰的招募模式时间序列数据。本研究的核心目标为量化幼鱼定居附着的时空分布模式，以解析海洋学因素与人为活动的影响效应。更多细节参见研究方法部分。