Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Santa Cruz Island, Diablo, Santa Barbara Channel, study of plant cover of Gracilaria 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 Gracilaria measurements in percent units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（乔尔纳达盆地长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research，LTER），美国农业部农业研究局（USDA-ARS）乔尔纳达实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎洛长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research，LTER），美国农业部林务局（USDA-FS）卢奎洛实验林）于2004年创立，旨在支撑长期生态数据集的采集与分析工作。该项目为大型综合研究计划，核心目标是提升长期数据集的可访问性与使用效率。目前，已有约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（Long-Term Ecological Research，LTER）站点，以及由美国农业部农业研究局（USDA-ARS）、美国农业部林务局（USDA-FS）、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（US Geological Survey，USGS）及众多高校资助的各类站点。EcoTrends项目的数据可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取。该网络门户依托交互式网页应用，支持用户持续开展数据整合与数据访问工作。持续的数据整合流程将通过手动与自动两种处理方式，依托长期生态研究溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture，PASTA）完成更新。该网络门户由乔尔纳达LTER站与LTER网络办公室合作开发。本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal，SBC）的数据集包含以百分比为单位的江蓠属（Gracilaria）植物盖度实测数据，且已按年际时间尺度进行聚合。