PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: UCSC: Plate: 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 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.

本元数据记录归档了针对PISCO潮间带的生物补充监测研究。研究人员在加利福尼亚州与俄勒冈州太平洋沿岸的多个站点部署幼体沉降收集器，并清理岩面。每个站点设置两类收集器：一类为卵形塑料网材质、形似锅刷的"Tuffies"收集器，用于采集贻贝幼体；另一类为覆盖3M Safety-Walk防滑垫的10×10 cm聚氯乙烯（PVC）板，用于监测藤壶幼体的沉降补充。在每个藤壶沉降收集板附近的岩面上，划定10×10 cm的方形样方并进行清理，以监测自然状态下的藤壶幼体补充。全年在所有站点的潮间带中潮区部署所有收集器并清理样方，部分年份与特定站点会额外在低潮区和高潮区增设收集器及样方。尽管本研究以贻贝和藤壶为主要目标类群，但同时也记录了其他潮间带生物。