Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors

At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures. We deployed biomimetic sensors that approximate the thermal characteristics of intertidal mussels at 71 sites worldwide, from 1998-present. Loggers recorded temperatures at 10–30 min intervals nearly continuously at multiple intertidal elevations. Comparisons against direct measurements of mussel tissue temperature indicated errors of ~2.0–2.5 °C, during daily fluctuations that often exceeded 15°–20 °C. Geographic patterns in thermal stress based on biomimetic logger measurements were generally far more complex than anticipated based only on ‘habitat-level’ measurements of air or sea surface temperature. This unique data set provides an opportunity to link physiological measurements with spatially- and tempo...,
Robomussel data
Robomussel data: intertidal biomimic body temperature of mussels deployed at 6 different countries. 1913 .txt files in total. Files are categorized by location (country, region, site). In addition, metadata files show specific information for loggers at each site.
robomussel.zip

iButton/Tidbit data
ibutton/Tidbit data: intertidal thermal sensors (aerial and water temperature) deployed at 5 different countries. 160 .txt files in total. Files are categorized by location (country, region, site). In addition, metadata files show specific information for loggers at each site.
ibutton.zip
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