Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Mohawk Reef, Santa Barbara Channel, study of animal density of Embiotoca lateralis in units of numberPerMeterSquared on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Santa Barbara Coastal (SBC) contains animal density of Embiotoca lateralis measurements in numberPerMeterSquared units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.EcoTrends项目由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（约尔达盆地长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER），美国农业部农业研究服务局约尔达实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎约长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER），美国农业部林务局卢奎约实验林）于2004年创立，旨在支持长期生态数据集的收集与分析工作。该项目是一项大型综合研究计划，核心目标为提升长期数据的可获取性与利用率。目前，约有50个由州级与联邦政府资助的研究站点参与并向EcoTrends项目贡献数据，其中涵盖全部26个长期生态研究（LTER）站点，以及美国农业部农业研究服务局（ARS）、美国农业部林务局、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）下属站点与众多高校站点。EcoTrends项目的数据可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取。该门户依托交互式Web应用，支持用户持续开展数据汇编并实现数据访问。作为长期生态研究站溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture, PASTA）的组成部分，持续进行的数据汇编工作通过人工与自动两种处理方式完成更新。该网络门户由约尔达LTER站点与LTER网络办公室合作开发。本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal, SBC）的数据集包含条纹海鲫（Embiotoca lateralis）的种群密度数据，单位为每平方米数量，且已按年度时间尺度完成聚合。