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.