Data for: Evaluating bottom-up forcing of a rocky intertidal resource harvest on a high trophic-level consumer group

The importance of ecosystem-based management (EBM) frameworks for resource harvest has increased over the past several decades as ecosystems face numerous anthropogenic stressors. In these frameworks, resource managers must consider the suite of interactions that comprise food webs and how resource harvest drives responses in non-target organisms. In rocky intertidal zones along North Atlantic coastlines, rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum)—a canopy-forming brown seaweed—has been commercially harvested for centuries, yet most research on the effects of harvest have focused on the responses of the target resource and the macroinvertebrate assemblage. In this study, we used a Before-After Control-Impact experiment to assess the bottom-up effects of commercial rockweed harvest on a high trophic-level consumer group (birds) in Maine (USA). Overall, there was no evidence for strong bottom-up forcing of rockweed harvest on birds’ site visitation. There was a small (fewer than two birds) positive e..., , , # Dataset for article: Evaluating bottom-up forcing of a rocky intertidal resource harvest on a high trophic-level consumer group

## Dataset information

Johnston et al. 2024. Published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 298

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Recommended citation for dataset: Johnston, E. M., Klemmer, A. J., Braun, L. A., Mittelstaedt, H. N., Muhlin, J. F., Webber, H. M., & Olsen, B. J. (2024). Data from: Evaluating bottom-up forcing of a rocky intertidal resource harvest on a high trophic-level consumer group. Dryad Digital Repository. .
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Corresponding author contact information:
Name: Elliot M. Johnston
Current Institution: Tetra Tech
Location: Bangor, Maine, USA
Current email:

Funding sources: Maine Sea Grant, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

## Dataset context

This dataset contains three files that contain field-collected data and data analyses for a University...