PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: UCSC: Tuffy: 2004

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 two types of collectors. Collectors made of plastic mesh, ovoid, pot-scrubbers ("Tuffies") 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. 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.本元数据记录完整呈现了PISCO潮间带幼体补充监测研究的相关信息。研究团队在加利福尼亚州与俄勒冈州太平洋沿岸的多个监测点位布设了定居收集器，并清理了岩面基质。每个监测点位设置两类收集器：其一为采用塑料网制成的卵形洗锅刷式收集器（商品名"Tuffies"），用于采集贻贝幼体；其二为表面覆盖3M Safety-Walk防滑材料的10×10厘米聚氯乙烯（PVC）塑料板，用于采集藤壶幼体。此外，在每块藤壶收集板附近的岩面上，研究人员会清理出10×10厘米的方形样地，以监测自然状态下的藤壶幼体补充过程。全年所有监测点位的收集器布设与样地清理工作，均在潮间带中潮区开展。在特定年份与监测点位，研究团队还会在低潮区与高潮区增设收集器与样地。尽管本研究以贻贝与藤壶为核心目标类群，但研究人员同时也记录了其他伴生生物类群。