Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors
At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures. We deployed biom...
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| Published in: | Scientific data Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 160087 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
11-10-2016
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| Summary: | At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures. We deployed biomimetic sensors that approximate the thermal characteristics of intertidal mussels at 71 sites worldwide, from 1998-present. Loggers recorded temperatures at 10–30 min intervals nearly continuously at multiple intertidal elevations. Comparisons against direct measurements of mussel tissue temperature indicated errors of ~2.0–2.5 °C, during daily fluctuations that often exceeded 15°–20 °C. Geographic patterns in thermal stress based on biomimetic logger measurements were generally far more complex than anticipated based only on ‘habitat-level’ measurements of air or sea surface temperature. This unique data set provides an opportunity to link physiological measurements with spatially- and temporally-explicit field observations of body temperature.
Design Type(s)
observation design • time series design
Measurement Type(s)
temperature of environmental material
Technology Type(s)
biomimetic sensor
Factor Type(s)
geographic location
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New South Wales • Queensland • State of Victoria • Province of British Columbia • Coquimbo • England • Scotland • County Clare • Galway • County Mayo • Baja California Peninsula • Auckland Region • Canterbury Region • Coromandel Peninsula • Northland Region • West Coast Region • State of California • Commonwealth of Massachusetts • State of Oregon • State of South Carolina • State of Washington • Eastern Cape Province • KwaZulu-Natal Province • Northern Cape Province • Western Cape Province • intertidal zone
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Undefined-3 Present address:University of Rhode Island, Department of Natural Resources Science, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA Present address: Sonoma State University, Department of Biology, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA Present address: Universidade do Algarve, Centro de Ciencias do Mar, CIMAR Laboratório Associado, Faro 8005-139, Portugal Present address: Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina 29201, USA Present address: U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA Present address: School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZX, U.K. Present address: Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Acton 2601, Australia Present address: San José State University, Department of Biological Sciences, San José, California 95192, USA Present address: Occidental College, Vantuna Research Group, Los Angeles, California 90041, USA Present address: Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia, South Carolina, USA Present address: Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve, Mammoth Lakes, California 93546, USA Present address: The Maritime Studies Program, Williams College and Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut 06355, USA Helmuth led the study for the entire duration of the record. Logistics of deployment, retrieval and data management were, at various times, overseen by Choi, Matzelle, Szathmary, Gilman, Mislan, Yamane, Tockstein and Strickland. All other authors managed instrument deployment and retrieval at field sites: Massachusetts (Choi, Torossian, Morello); Scotland (Burrows); Ireland (Power, Gosling); U.K. (Hilbish, Mieszkowska); British Columbia and Washington (Nishizaki, Carrington, Harley); Oregon (Menge, Petes, Foley, Johnson, Poole, Noble, Richmond, Robart, Robinson, Sapp); California (Denny, Mach, Miller, O′Donnell, Sones, Hilbish, Harley, Hofmann, Zippay, Blanchette, Macfarlan); Baja California (Carpizo-Ituarte, Ruttenberg, Peña Mejía); Chile (Broitman); New Zealand (Mislan, Petes, Ross, Menge) and South Africa (McQuaid, Lathlean, Monaco, Nicastro, Zardi). Helmuth led the writing of the manuscript and all authors contributed to editing. Present address: Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California 94305, USA Present address: University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA Present address: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Present address: California Polytechnic State University, Biological Sciences Department, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA Present address: Jefe Laboratorio de Instrumentación Marina, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Santa Marta D.T.C.H. 470006 Colombia Present address: The Maritime Aquarium Norwalk, Connecticut 06854, USA Present address: Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA |
| ISSN: | 2052-4463 2052-4463 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/sdata.2016.87 |