Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Naples Reef, Santa Barbara Channel, study of plant cover of Callophyllis flabellulata in units of percent 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 plant cover of Callophyllis flabellulata measurements in percent units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目（EcoTrends Project）于2004年由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（Debra Peters，约尔纳达盆地长期生态研究站点（Jornada Basin LTER）、美国农业部农业研究服务局（USDA-ARS）约尔纳达实验牧场）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（Ariel Lugo，卢奎约长期生态研究站点（Luquillo LTER）、美国农业部森林服务局（USDA-FS）卢奎约实验森林）创立，旨在支撑长期生态数据集的采集与分析工作。
该项目为一项大型综合研究计划，核心目标是提升长期生态数据的可获取性与应用价值。目前共有约50个由州政府与联邦政府资助的研究站点参与EcoTrends项目并贡献数据，其中涵盖全部26个长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER）站点，以及美国农业部农业研究服务局（USDA ARS）、美国农业部森林服务局（USDA FS）、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）与众多高校资助的相关站点。
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整合与数据获取工作。作为长期生态研究网络溯源感知综合跟踪架构（LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture, PASTA）的组成部分，其持续进行的数据整合工作通过人工与自动两种处理方式完成更新。该网络门户由约尔纳达长期生态研究站点与长期生态研究网络办公室联合打造。
本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal, SBC）的数据集包含以百分比为单位的扇形隐丝藻（Callophyllis flabellulata）盖度测量数据，且已按年度时间尺度进行聚合。