PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: OSU: Tuffy: 2008

This metadata record documents the recruitment monitoring study for PISCO intertidal. Settlement collectors are deployed and rock surfaces cleared at various sites along the pacific coast of California and Oregon. At each site there are at least two types of collectors. Collectors made of plastic mesh, ovoid, pot-scrubbers ("Tuffys") target mussel recruits. Plastic 10x10 cm PVC plates covered with 3M Safety-Walk target barnacle recruitment. 10x10 cm square plots were cleared on the rock near each barnacle recruitment plate to target natural barnacle recruitment. Turfys are rectangles of artificial turf that target crab recruitment. All collectors were deployed and plots cleared in the mid zone at all the sites throughout the year. Additional collectors and plots were added to the low and high shore levels in specific years and sites. Although mussels and barnacles were the main target taxa, other organisms were recorded as well.本元数据记录针对PISCO潮间带生物招募监测研究进行编制。研究团队在加利福尼亚州与俄勒冈州太平洋沿岸的多个点位部署附着收集器，并清理对应岩面。每个点位至少设置两类收集器：一类为卵形塑料网锅刷型（"Tuffys"）收集器，用于采集贻贝招募个体；另一类为表面覆盖3M Safety-Walk防滑垫的10cm×10cm聚氯乙烯（PVC）塑料板，用于采集藤壶招募个体。此外，研究人员会在每个藤壶招募收集板附近的岩面上清理出10cm×10cm的方形样地，以监测自然状态下的藤壶招募情况。另有Turfy型长方形人造草皮收集器，用于采集蟹类招募个体。全年所有点位的潮间带中区均部署了上述收集器并清理对应样地；在特定年份与点位，研究团队还会在潮间带低区与高区增设收集器与样地。尽管本研究以贻贝与藤壶为主要目标类群，但同时也对其他伴生生物进行了记录。