SBC LTER: Beach: Wrack and porewater in southern Santa Barbara County, 2003

These data describe 1) the composition, cover, and wet biomass of macrophyte wrack accumulated in the intertidal zone measured along replicated shore-normal transects and 2) the concentrations of major dissolved nutrients and salinity of samples of beach porewater collected from excavations to the water table at different intertidal heights and in the surf zone along the same replicated transects where wrack was measured. These wrack and biogeochemical data were collected on ten sandy beaches of the mainland coast of the Santa Barbara Channel in late summer 2003. Distance between shore-normal transects was randomly selected at each site, and data can be used as replicates