PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: UCSB: Tuffy: 2000

This metadata record documents the recruitment monitoring study for PISCO intertidal. Settlement collectors are deployed and rock surfaces cleared at various sites along the pacific coast of California and Oregon. At each site there are two types of collectors. Collectors made of plastic mesh, ovoid, pot-scrubbers ("Tuffys") target mussel recruits. Plastic 10x10 cm PVC plates covered with 3M Safety-Walk target barnacle recruitment. 10x10 cm square plots were cleared on the rock near each barnacle recruitment plate to target natural barnacle recruitment. All collectors were deployed and plots cleared in the mid zone at all the sites throughout the year. Additional collectors and plots were added to the low and high shore levels in specific years and sites. Although mussels and barnacles were the main target taxa, other organisms were recorded as well.

本元数据记录记录了针对PISCO潮间带的生物招募监测研究。研究团队在加利福尼亚与俄勒冈州的太平洋沿岸多个点位布设招募收集器并清理岩面。每个监测点位设置两类收集器：一类为采用塑料网制作的卵形洗碗刷式收集器（“Tuffys”），用于采集贻贝幼体；另一类为表面覆盖3M Safety-Walk防滑材料的10cm×10cm聚氯乙烯（PVC）平板收集器，用于采集藤壶幼体。此外，在每块藤壶收集平板附近的岩面上清理出10cm×10cm的方形样方，以监测自然状态下的藤壶招募情况。全年所有收集器的布设与样方清理工作均在所有点位的潮间带中区开展；在特定年份与点位，研究团队还会额外在潮间带低区与高区增设收集器与样方。尽管本研究以贻贝与藤壶为主要目标分类单元，但同时也记录了其他生物类群。