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Dataset for: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impacts on Salt Marsh Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp.)

Authors: Scott Zengel, Steven Pennings, Brian Silliman, Clay Montague, Jennifer Weaver, Donald Deis, Michelle Krasnec, Nicolle Rutherford, and Zachary Nixon

Published On: Feb 24 2017 17:01 UTC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7266/N72B8WC6

UDI: R2.x211.000:0011

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Project Information

Funded By:
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Funding Cycle:
RFP-II

Research Group:
Accelerating Recovery after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Response of the Plant-Microbial-Benthic Ecosystem to Mitigation Strategies Promoting Wetland Remediation and Resilience

Point of Contact

Donald R. Deis
Atkins North America, Inc. / Atkins North America Sciences
don.deis@atkinsglobal.com

Data Collection Period

2010-08-01

2014-10-31

Theme keywords

fiddler crab, Uca, Uca spinicarpa, burrow diameter, burrow density, salt marsh, Uca longisignalis

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Abstract:

This dataset reports salt marsh fiddler crab (Uca spp.) burrow densities and burrow mean diameter at oiled and non-oiled sites in coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama from 2010 to 2014. The species composition, reported as a count of the number of U. longisignalis and U. spinicarpa present are included for some sites from 2011-2013. These data are associated with the publication: Zengel, S., Pennings, S.C., Silliman, B. et al. Estuaries and Coasts (2016) 39: 1154. doi:10.1007/s12237-016-0072-6.

Suggested Citation:

Scott Zengel, Steven Pennings, Brian Silliman, Clay Montague, Jennifer Weaver, Donald Deis, Michelle Krasnec, Nicolle Rutherford, and Zachary Nixon. 2017. Dataset for: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impacts on Salt Marsh Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp.). Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N72B8WC6

Publications:

Zengel, S., Pennings, S. C., Silliman, B., Montague, C., Weaver, J., Deis, D. R., … Nixon, Z. (2016). Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impacts on Salt Marsh Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp.). Estuaries and Coasts. doi:10.1007/s12237-016-0072-6

Purpose:

The purpose of this research was to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected fiddler crabs.

Data Parameters and Units:

location (original site name from source dataset), month (month of survey, 0-12), year (year of survey, 2010-2014), zone (distance from seaward marsh edge, where: 1 = marsh edge (0-6 m), 2 = oiled marsh interior (6-15 m), 3 = marsh interior inland of heavy oiling ( > 15 m). study name (author name of source dataset), oil presence (1 = oiled site, 0 = unoiled site), burrow density (mean density of crab burrows in number per square meter), mean diameter (mean burrow diameter (mm)), UL (number of Uca longisignalis present), US (number of Uca spinicarpa present), latitude (latitude of study site, decimal degrees), longitude (longitude of study site in decimal degrees)

Methods:

This dataset includes comparable data from published and unpublished sources to perform a meta-analysis.