Cold water corals

Program, Project, or Expedition Name:

 Cold water corals: Colony complexity, age, and growth

Data Link: https://zenodo.org/record/3417694#.XxCYo_lKhPZ | https://zenodo.org/record/3547945#.XxCfgflKhPY


InstitutionLMRCSC, UMES
Principal InvestigatorBrad Stevens | bgstevens@umes.edu | 410-651-6066
Funding Agency/Contract #NOAA Bycatch Program,  NA16NMF4720285
Collection Start Date7/1/2017
Objectives of Data Collection EffortEstimate age and growth rates of sea whip corals
Collection End Date8/1/2019
Data Collectors Identifying NumbersN/A
Ship or Other Platform NameOCDiveBoat
Geographic Location [Latitude(s)/longitude(s)]38.290983, -74.910817
Unitscm, year, ratio, ratio
Data ParametersLength, age, bifurcation ratio, tributary/source ratio
Precision1.0 cm, 1.0 year, 0.1, 0.01
Observation Methodologyvisual, microscopy
Instrument/Gear  Identification of DescriptionN/A
Analysis MethodologyAnova, Chi-square,  Kolmogorov-Smirnov, von Bertalanffy
Data Processing/ Reduction MethodologyR code; FSA and nlstools packages
Explanations of Data Quality FlagsNone
Citations of Relevant Publications and Grey LiteratureWenker, R. P., and B. G. Stevens. 2020.
Sea whip coral Leptogorgia virgulata in the
Mid-Atlantic Bight: Colony complexity, age, and growth.
PeerJ 8:e8372.
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