Data from minnow traps deployed to accompany scallop survival assays conducted as part of a larger concurrent study with Artificial Seagrass Units (ASU) in NC from July to September 2018

This dataset contains minnow trap data from deployments performed to accompany scallop survival assays conducted in 2018 (assays across landscape area x fragmentation per se treatments). These data were collected as part of the following study published in Yarnall et al. (2024):

To parse the influences of fragmentation components on scallop survival, we generated nine unique landscapes composed of artificial seagrass units (ASUs), were constructed to mimic Zostera marina. These landscapes were part of a larger-scale concurrent experiment, during which we examined seagrass fragmentation effects on estuarine faunal communities (Yarnall et al. In Press). Landscapes were designed to be treatments along orthogonal axes of seagrass percent cover of the landscape footprint (10%, 35%, 60%) and fragmentation per se, indexed by percolation probability (0.1, 0.35, 0.59).
To examine the influence of potential scallop predator community density on scallop survival, we deployed two baited minnow traps to accompany each survival assay. All caught fauna were identified to the species level, enumerated, and released.

Data were collected by Drs. F. Joel Fodrie and Amy H. Yarnall for the Estuarine Ecology Laboratory of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences.