Estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates in individual marine and estuarine animals

This dataset contains nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rate, as
well as dry biomass, estimates for individual vertebrate and
invertebrate animals in marine and estuarine environments. This
dataset is a product of an LTER Synthesis Working Group aimed at
evaluating the spatiotemporal variability in consumer nutrient
dynamics in the wake of global change across eight long-term
ecological research projects. These projects include seven
long-term ecological research programs (LTER) funded by the
National Science Foundation: (1) California Current Ecosystem, (2)
Florida Coastal Everglades, (3) Moorea Coral Reef, (4) Northern
Gulf of Alaska, (5) Plum Island Ecosystems, (6) Santa Barbara
Coastal, and (7) Virginia Coast Reserve LTER projects.
Additionally, the dataset includes data from (8) The Partnership
for Interdisciplinary Science of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) research
program. The temporal coverage of each time series data varies
among projects, with the earliest record in 1997 and the most
recent in 2023.

This data package also includes five R scripts used for data
harmonization, identical to those in the Initial Release of the
LTER Synthesis Working Group: Consumer-Mediated Nutrient Dynamics
Project, v1.1.0. You can find the release in GitHub here:
https://github.com/lter/lterwg-marine-cnd/releases/tag/v1.0.0