PISCO UCSB Subtidal Fish Recruitment Data

This metadata record documents the recruitment monitoring study for PISCO subtidal. The dataset describes the recruitment of juvenile fishes to artificial substrate from 2000-2018 at sites around the Santa Barbara Channel and Northern Channel Islands. Artificial collectors known as Standardized Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes (SMURFs) were sampled approximately every two weeks to provide a time series of recruitment patterns independent of the availability and quality of nearby habitat. The main purpose of this study is to measure spatial and temporal patterns of juvenile fish settlement to understand the effects of oceanography and anthropogenic influence. See Methods for more details.