PISCO UCSB Intertidal Invertebrate Tuffy Recruitment Data

This metadata record documents the invertebrate recruitment monitoring
study for intertidal habitats conducted by the Partnership for
Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO). The dataset
describes the recruitment of juvenile invertebrate to artificial
substrate at sites along the Central and Southern California
coastline. 'Tuffies’ were used as standardized settlement substrate to
measure the recruitment of competent larvae independent of the
availability and quality of nearby habitat. The main purpose of this
study is to measure spatial and temporal patterns of invertebrate
settlement to understand the effects of oceanography and anthropogenic
influence.