Benthic macrofauna and water quality of Oso Bay, Texas, 2012-2014

Oso Bay, Texas is a secondary bay in the Nueces Estuary that is characterized by high nutrient loading from wastewater treatment plants and high salinities caused by hypersaline water pumped into an upstream area of the Oso Bay. Benthic macrofauna and water quality were sampled from 2012-11-15 to 2014-01-25 to assess the effect of spatio-temporal changes in water quality on the benthic community. This dataset is associated with the publications: Wetz, Michael S., Kenneth C. Hayes, Kelsey V. Fisher, Lynn Price, and Blair Sterba-Boatwright. Water quality dynamics in an urbanizing subtropical estuary (Oso Bay, Texas). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2016; 104(1-2):44-53. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.02.013. De Santiago, K., Palmer, T., Wetz, M., & Beseres Pollack, J. (2020). Response of macrobenthic communities to changes in water quality in a subtropical, microtidal estuary (Oso Bay, Texas). Experimental Results, 1, E34. doi:10.1017/exp.2020.44