Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska

Sediment cores were collected from 21 sites along western Prince of Wales Island and the surrounding archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The cores were collected to quantify the amount of organic and inorganic material within intertidal eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in each site. The cores were 5 cm i...

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Main Authors: Stephens, Tiffany, Eckert, Ginny
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: KNB Data Repository 2018
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5063/f1zs2tth
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spelling ftdatacite:10.5063/f1zs2tth 2023-05-15T14:17:58+02:00 Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska Stephens, Tiffany Eckert, Ginny 2018 text/xml https://dx.doi.org/10.5063/f1zs2tth https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1ZS2TTH en eng KNB Data Repository Organic matter Inorganic matter Seagrass Ecosystem services Carbon sequestration Carbon dataset Dataset 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5063/f1zs2tth 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Sediment cores were collected from 21 sites along western Prince of Wales Island and the surrounding archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The cores were collected to quantify the amount of organic and inorganic material within intertidal eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in each site. The cores were 5 cm in diameter and were divided into 2-cm layers for analysis; the deepest core reached a maximum of 70 cm in sediment depth. Both organic and inorganic material were determined via loss-on-ignition (LOI) methods, consistent with the majority of existing literature. These data were collected to compliment a larger, interdisciplinary project called APECS (Apex predators, Ecosystems, and Community Sustainability), the focus of which investigated the role that sea otters have on seagrass habitats, their ecological function, and influences on traditional and subsistence harvest of specified marine organisms. Dataset Archipelago Prince of Wales Island Alaska DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Prince of Wales Island ENVELOPE(-99.001,-99.001,72.668,72.668)
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topic Organic matter
Inorganic matter
Seagrass
Ecosystem services
Carbon sequestration
Carbon
spellingShingle Organic matter
Inorganic matter
Seagrass
Ecosystem services
Carbon sequestration
Carbon
Stephens, Tiffany
Eckert, Ginny
Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
topic_facet Organic matter
Inorganic matter
Seagrass
Ecosystem services
Carbon sequestration
Carbon
description Sediment cores were collected from 21 sites along western Prince of Wales Island and the surrounding archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The cores were collected to quantify the amount of organic and inorganic material within intertidal eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in each site. The cores were 5 cm in diameter and were divided into 2-cm layers for analysis; the deepest core reached a maximum of 70 cm in sediment depth. Both organic and inorganic material were determined via loss-on-ignition (LOI) methods, consistent with the majority of existing literature. These data were collected to compliment a larger, interdisciplinary project called APECS (Apex predators, Ecosystems, and Community Sustainability), the focus of which investigated the role that sea otters have on seagrass habitats, their ecological function, and influences on traditional and subsistence harvest of specified marine organisms.
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author Stephens, Tiffany
Eckert, Ginny
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Eckert, Ginny
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title Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
title_short Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
title_full Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
title_fullStr Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
title_full_unstemmed Sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in Southeast Alaska
title_sort sediment organic and inorganic matter within intertidal eelgrass beds in southeast alaska
publisher KNB Data Repository
publishDate 2018
url https://dx.doi.org/10.5063/f1zs2tth
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