Fish Restoration Program Tidal Wetland Restoration Monitoring in Upper San Francisco Estuary, 2015-ongoing

Table of taxonomic information for organisms caught in mesozooplankton, macroinvertebrate, and fish samples.

A site visit is a field data collection event. At each site visit, one or more samples may be collected. A site visit connects to samples in the macrozooplankton, zooplankton, or fish tables, via the VisitNo variable. Commonly, the site visit file will be merged with the macroinvert, zoops, or fish data files. This is a 1 to many merge, with VisitNo as the key variable. For example, in R, newdatafile<-merge(zoops_FRP2021, sitevisit_FRP2021, by=VisitNo). All samples are associated with a site visit, a site visit may have zero to many samples.

Mesozooplankton trawl data, including sample and catch data. CPUEs are reported for each taxon. To calculate the total CPUE for each sample, sum the CPUEs for individual taxa. Typically, there is one observation (row) for each taxonomic group within a sample, but occasionally, the subsampling was changed during processing and there are two observations (rows) for a single taxonomic group within the sample.

Contains sample and catch data for macroinvertebrate samples. Macroinvertebrate samples include all gear types with mesh size of 500 microns, including trawls, benthic samples, and samples taken in vegetation. To calculate the total CPUE for each sample, sum the CPUEs for individual taxa. Typically, there is one observation (row) for each taxonomic group within a sample, but occasionally, the subsampling was changed during processing and there are two observations (rows) for a single taxonomic group within the sample.

Contains sample and catch data for fish samples. Typically, there is one observation (row) for each measured fish within a sample in addition to an observation (row) with a plus count (for non-measured individuals of a species). Total CPUE can be calculated by summing the individual catches, dividing by effort, and multiplying by 10,000 to get the number of fish per 10,000 m^3. There was likely confusion over naming conventions in the field for the genus Palaemon vs the old genus name Palaemonetes. This may have resulted in misidentification of Palaemon species prior to 2023.

Contains sample and lab data for nutrient samples. Analytes include Chlorophyll a, Dissolved Ammonia, Dissolved Nitrite + Nitrate, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, Dissolved Ortho-phosphate, Pheophytin a, Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen, Total Organic Carbon, Total Phosphorus, and Total Suspended Solids.

Contains sample and catch data for phytoplankton samples. There is typically one observation (row) for each measured phytoplankton cell or natural unit within a sample. CommonNames may be repeated in a sample, because two different taxa originally assigned by the contractor were assigned the same CommonName.

Contains detailed Standard Operating Procedures for field and lab data collection, including gear specifications.

This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices. This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.

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