Intertidal marsh invertebrates in paired oiled/unoiled sites in coastal Louisiana in Spring and Fall 2013

• Main Author: Nancy N. Rabalais
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2016
• Subjects: Sediment; Intertidal; Epifauna; Marsh; Oil; Contamination; coastal; sea bottom; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic Ocean; United States of America; North America; Northern Hemisphere; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/R1-x139-144-0021-0004

In Spring and Fall 2013 snails and mussels were collected in three sampling regions in south Louisiana. They were collected by hand from within 0.5 x 0.5 m (0.25 m2) quadrats placed 1 and 10 m from the marsh edge at three transects perpendicular to shore, in oiled-unoiled pairs per region. Sediment...