Publication Date:
2023-06-03
Description:
Abiotic data were collected to assess the environmental conditions that coincided with the 2016 mass bleaching event documented at Shell island (Shenton Bluff), Cygnet Bay, Kimberley region, northwestern Australia. Photosynthetically active irradiance (PAR) was recorded in both the intertidal and subtidal reef zone. Downwelling planar PAR was measured at each zone for a few days over a spring tide at three time periods in 2016 (12–17 January, 6–8 and 10–12 April, 17–20 October) using Odyssey light loggers. No light data are available from January 2016 due to the logger malfunctioning. Each of the Odyssey loggers was calibrated under water against a factory-calibrated LiCor PAR sensor. All loggers were deployed on tripods ~20 cm above the benthos.
Keywords:
Australia; bleaching surveys; coral chlorophyll a concentration; coral community composition; DATE/TIME; Event label; Field experiment; PAR; Radiation, photosynthetically active; Shell_Island_intertidal; Shell_Island_subtidal; SST; water level
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 3901 data points
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