Kelp holdfast assemblages

This dataset describes the biodiversity of fauna (including Arthropoda, Annelida, Mollusca, and Bryozoa) inhabiting kelp holdfasts in northeastern New Zealand at several spatial scales: from meters up to hundreds of kilometers.

Dataset Location: Available from author upon request

Site Location(s): Berghan Point (34°55.78′ S, 173°32.72′ E), Home Point (35°19.38′ S, 174°21.38′ E), Leigh (36°17.43′ S, 174°48.82′ E) and Hahei (36°50.86′ S, 175°49.32′ E). Within each location, there were two sites (separated by hundreds of metres to kilometres), and within each site, there were two areas (separated by tens of metres and measuring approximately 10 m × 10 m).

Site(s) Georeferenced: No

Spatial Scale of data: individual kelp holdfast, 36-285 ml by volume

Timespan: 2002

Frequency: single collection period (all collections took place between 7 January to 5 February)

Data Acquisition: Observational

Methods: Kelp holdfasts of the species Ecklonia radiata were collected according to a structured  hierarchical experimental design. The largest spatial scale examined was locations (four levels, separated by hundreds of kilometres), which were approximately equally spaced along a large stretch of the north-eastern coast of New Zealand (See Anderson, M. J., C. E. Diebel, W. M. Blom, and T. J. Landers. Consistency and variation in kelp holdfast assemblages: spatial patterns of biodiversity for the major phyla at different taxonomic resolutions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 320: 35-56.)

Citation: Anderson, M. J., C. E. Diebel, W. M. Blom, and T. J. Landers. 2005. Consistency and variation in kelp holdfast assemblages: spatial patterns of biodiversity for the major phyla at different taxonomic resolutions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 320: 35-56.

Supplemental resources: Anderson, M. J., R. B. Millar, W. M. Blom, and C. E. Diebel. 2005. Nonlinear multivariate models of successional change in community structure using the von Bertalanffy curve. Oecologia 146: 279-286.

Anderson, M. J., S. D. Connell, B. M. Gillanders, and C. E. Diebel. 2005. Relationships between taxonomic resolution and spatial scales of multivariate variation. Journal of Animal Ecology 74: 636-646.

Anderson, M. J., K. E. Ellingsen, and B. H. McArdle. 2006. Multivariate dispersion as a measure of beta diversity. Ecology Letters 9: 683-693.

Available on EcoData Retriever: No