A manipulative field experiment examining the recruitment of sessile epifauna to hard-substratum at potentially impacted and control locations.

• Other Authors: RIDDLE, MARTIN J. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; transportation; CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS; EARTH SCIENCE; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; MARINE OBSTRUCTIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; CRUSTACEANS; ARTHROPODS; ECHINODERMS; MOLLUSKS; SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS); PLANTS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; SPECIES DOMINANCE INDICES; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ASCIDIANS; ASSEMBLAGE; BRYOZOANS; COMMUNITY; CONTAMINATION; EPIFAUNA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMPACT; HARD SUBSTRATA; POLLUTION; POLYCHAETES; RECOLONISATION; RECRUITMENT; TILES; SESSILE; MICROSCOPES; FIELD SURVEYS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica; Casey Station; Brown Bay; O'Brien Bay; Shannon Bay; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/manipulative-field-experiment-control-locations/699766; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_tiles_1_sessile; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The recruitment of epifauna (sessile and mobile) on hard-substratum was examined in a field experiment using tiles. A total of 160 tiles were deployed at five locations, with 32 tiles at each location, arranged in a spatially nested design. There were three potentially impacted locations locations (...