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Food webs including parasites, biomass, body sizes, and life stages for three California/Baja California estuaries
Author(s) -
Hechinger Ryan F.,
Lafferty Kevin D.,
McLaughlin John P.,
Fredensborg Brian L.,
Huspeni Todd C.,
Lorda Julio,
Sandhu Parwant K.,
Shaw Jenny C.,
Torchin Mark E.,
Whitney Kathleen L.,
Kuris Armand M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.1890/10-1383.1
Subject(s) - ecology , estuary , biomass (ecology) , geography , biology
This data set presents food webs for three North American Pacific coast estuaries and a “Metaweb” composed of the species/stages compiled from all three estuaries. The webs have four noteworthy attributes: (1) parasites (infectious agents), (2) body-size information, (3) biomass information, and (4) ontogenetic stages of many animals with complex life cycles. The estuaries are Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California (CSM); Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California (EPB); and Bahia Falsa in Bahia San Quintin, Baja California (BSQ). Most data on species assemblages and parasitism were gathered via consistent sampling that acquired body size and biomass information for plants and animals larger than ∼1 mm, and for many infectious agents (mostly metazoan parasites, but also some microbes). We augmented this with information from additional published sources and by sampling unrepresented groups (e.g., plankton). We estimated free-living consumer–resource links primarily by extending a previously published version of t...