Seagrass abundance in Unguja Island (Zanzibar Archipealgo, Tanzania) sampled in 2016

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We studied if functional traits related to resource preemption (light and inorganic nutrients) exert control on space preemption of tropical seagrass meadows. Additionally, we studied if space preemption changed under different eutrophication scenarios. We took seagrass abundance data to study space preemption, seagrass traits data to study their effect on space preemption and eutrophication indicators to evaluate the level of eutrophication at each site/sampling event. The data was collected in Unguja Island (Zanzibar Archipealgo, Tanzania) in seven sites/sampling events (Harbor, Chapwani, Changuu, Bweleo, Fumba, Mangroves and Marumbi). Each site/sampling event comprised a subtidal seagrass meadow (2-4 meters depth) of around 2500 square meters, delimited by the coastline and a fringing reef. The data was taken between the 26.09.2016 to the 05.10.2016. In each site/sampling event, five 50 meters transects were deployed perpendicular to the coast and paralel to each other, approximately separated by 50 meters. The areas enclosed beweeen the transects were names A, B, C and D. Seagrass cover was quantified along five 50-m transects per site/sampling event, set perpendicular to the coast and parallel to each other, separated by ~50 meters. Seagrass cover was quantified as the percent area occupied per species within seagrass plots of 0.5 x 0.5 m marked by PVC quadrats, randomly placed along each transect (n = 9 per transect, 45 per site/sampling event).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932896
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.709257
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.932896
Provenance
Creator Moreira-Saporiti, Agustín ORCID logo; Teichberg, Mirta (ORCID: 0000-0003-1586-738X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 278616556 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/278616556 Seagrass and Macroalgal Community Dynamics and Performance under Environmental Change
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3150 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (39.167W, -6.310S, 39.434E, -6.118N); Zanzibar Archipealgo, Tanzania
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-09-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z