PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: OSU: Turfy: 2009

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 at least 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. Turfys are rectangles of artificial turf that target crab 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.

本元数据记录完整记录了PISCO潮间带幼体补充监测研究的相关信息。研究团队在加利福尼亚州与俄勒冈州太平洋沿岸的多个监测点位布设了幼体定殖收集器，并清理了岩面。每个点位至少布设两类收集器：其一为卵形塑料网垫式“Tuffys”锅刷型收集器，用于采集贻贝幼体；其二为表面覆盖3M Safety-Walk防滑材料的10×10厘米聚氯乙烯（PVC）塑料板，用于监测藤壶幼体定殖。此外，研究人员在每块藤壶收集板附近的岩面上清理出10×10厘米的方形样地，以监测自然定殖的藤壶。Turfys为长方形人工草皮垫，用于采集蟹类幼体。所有收集器的布设与样地清理工作全年均在所有点位的潮间带中潮区开展；部分年份与特定点位还会在潮间带低潮区与高潮区增设收集器与样地。尽管本研究以贻贝与藤壶为主要目标类群，但研究团队同时也记录了其他生物类群的相关数据。