Dataset: Effects of periodic trampling on the percentage cover of understory algae within Hormosira banksii dominated rocky intertidal communities

Description

This study assesses the effects of trampling on Hormosira banksii dominated rocky intertidal algal beds within Point Nepean National Park, Victoria, over six summers between 1991 and 1996. This dataset gives the percent cover of understory algae within beds of Hormosira banksii after exposure to four levels of trampling for 3 and 5 years. Sites were located at Cheviot Beach (Harry's pool, Cheviot mid) or Grenade Range, ~ 1 km apart. Percent cover of understory algae was sampled in the Autumn of 1993 and 1995, after 3 and 5 years of trampling, respectively. Trampling reduced the abundance of articulated coralline algae at the Grenade Range site but not at either of the two Cheviot Beach sites.

General Information

• School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
• Create Date: 25/06/2017
• Update Date: 11/08/2023
• Landing Page: https://data.gov.au/dataset/f6837945-839e-439e-b3b6-ae05597b6de2
• Keywords:
  • 54006000
  • 54100001
  • 55121000
  • 56180044
  • Adaptation
  • Biosphere
  • Civil Disturbance
  • Cladophoraceae
  • Corallinaceae
  • Ecological Dynamics
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Hormosira banksii
  • Human Dimensions
  • Macroalgae
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Plants
  • Oceans
  • Point Nepean National Park
  • Ralfsiaceae
  • Vegetation
  • articulate coralline algae
  • encrusting coralline algae
  • periodic

Distributions

• http://www.marine.csiro.au/csquares/index.html
  • Format: HTML
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
  • Create Date: 25/06/2017
  • Update Date: 24/06/2017