Long-term Rocky Intertidal Monitoring on Appledore Island, Maine, 1982-2017

Shoals Marine Laboratory, jointly operated by Cornell University and
the University of New Hampshire, has conducted annual surveys of
intertidal biota on Appledore Island since 1972 and on Star Island in
1970-72. The primary goal of the survey is to train undergraduate
university students in observation, species identification, survey
methodology, data collection and management, and science
communication. The secondary, but equally important, goal is to
generate a long-term record of intertidal biota found on Appledore
Island, Maine USA. This published dataset includes species presence,
abundance, size, and distribution since 1985, the earliest year full
records were available for digital archive.