PISCO: Intertidal: Recruitment Monitoring: UCSC: Plate: 2007

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（metadata record）归档了PISCO潮间带幼体招募监测研究的相关内容。研究团队在加利福尼亚州与俄勒冈州太平洋沿岸的多个样点布设了附着收集器（settlement collector），并清理了岩面。每个样点设置两类收集器：一类为卵形塑料网材质的洗碗海绵（"Tuffies"）收集器，用于监测贻贝幼体的招募情况；另一类为尺寸10×10厘米的PVC塑料板，表面粘贴3M Safety-Walk防滑材料，用于监测藤壶幼体的招募。此外，研究人员在每个藤壶招募板附近的岩面上清理出10×10厘米的方形样区，以监测自然状态下的藤壶幼体招募。所有收集器的布设与岩面样区的清理均全年在所有样点的潮间带中潮区开展。在特定年份与样点中，团队额外在潮间带低潮区与高潮区增设了收集器与样区。尽管本研究以贻贝与藤壶为主要目标分类单元（taxa），但同时也记录了其他伴生生物。