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.

本元数据记录为PISCO潮下带鱼类招募监测研究的归档文档。本数据集涵盖2000年至2018年间，圣巴巴拉海峡及北海峡群岛周边各站点内，幼鱼向人工基质的招募动态。研究采用名为鱼类招募标准化监测单元（Standardized Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes, SMURFs）的人工收集装置，约每两周进行一次采样，以此生成独立于周边栖息地可获取性与质量的招募模式时间序列。本研究的核心目的为量化幼鱼定居的时空分布格局，以解析海洋学过程与人为活动的影响效应。更多细节请参见研究方法部分。