Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Arroyo Burro Reef, Santa Barbara Channel, study of plant cover of Ulva 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 Ulva measurements in percent units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目于2004年由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（乔纳达盆地长期生态研究站，美国农业部农业研究局（USDA-ARS）乔纳达实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎洛长期生态研究站，美国农业部林务局（USDA-FS）卢奎洛实验森林）创立，旨在支撑长期生态数据集的采集与分析工作。
该项目是一项大型综合研究计划，核心致力于提升长期生态数据的可获取性与应用效能。
目前共有约50个由州政府及联邦政府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（ARS）、美国农业部林务局、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）与众多高校资助的相关站点。
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络应用平台，为用户持续提供数据汇编与数据获取服务。
作为长期生态研究溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture，PASTA）的组成部分，正在进行的数据汇编工作将通过人工与自动双重处理流程完成更新。
本网络门户由乔纳达LTER站与LTER网络办公室联合开发。
本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（SBC）的数据集包含以百分比为单位的石莼属（Ulva）植物覆盖度测量数据，且已按年度时间尺度完成聚合。