Oyster reef cages containing either bivalves, consumers or predators were set up along the southeastern US coast from N. Carolina to Florida. This dataset includes the number of live and dead oyster spat and live/dead recruits on tiles within the cages.
Related Reference:
DL. Kimbro,JE. Byers,JH. Grabowski, AR. Hughes and MF. Piehler. The biogeography of trophic cascades on US oyster reefs (2014) Ecology Letters 17:845-854. doi: 10.1111/ele.12293.
Data is also available from the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB):
1. Cage Experiment Bivalve Data http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat?action=read&qformat=knb&sessionid=0&docid=evanlpettis.101.15
Kimbro, D. L., Grabowski, J. (2015) Abundance of spat and recruitment in a cage experiment on the oyster reefs along Southeastern Atlantic Bight (SAB) from North Carolina to Florida in 2011 (Oyster Trophic Cascades project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 2015-04-01) Version Date 2015-04-01 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/554983 [access date]
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