GCE - Mollusc pop. Abun. monitoring: Spring 2002 mid-marsh and creekbank infaunal and epifaunal mollusc abun. based on collect from GCE marsh, monit. sites 1-10

This data set is the Spring 2002 estimate of infaunal and epifaunal mollusc
abundance at the GCE-LTER marsh sites used for population monitoring. Species
abundance was determined by hand-collecting all the infaunal and epifaunal
molluscs from within quadrats of known area in mid-marsh and creekbank zones (n
= 4 quadrats per zone) at all sites. The molluscs were returned to the lab,
fixed in formalin, transferred to and preserved in ethanol, counted and
measured (size data is reported separately). The counts were converted to
number per square meter. Gastropod species are listed first, followed by
bivalve species. Size distribution data for these collections may be found in
the GCE-LTER data set INV-GCEM-0412a2.

Overall bounding box describing the geographic region within the Georgia
Coastal Ecosystems LTER study domain represented in data set INV-GCEM-0412a1