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Citation:	Starke, Claudia; Ekau, Werner; Moosdorf, Nils (2018): Impact of submarine groundwater discharge on fish and zooplankton abundances and on early biofouling processes in a coastal la goon of Tahiti, French Polynesia [dataset publication series]. Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888416
Abstract:	Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) in to the sea is widely spread and investigated. However, on the impact of SGD on marine organisms in turn very view work has been done. For a better understanding of the interaction between SGD and its surrounding organisms, the impact of SGD on fish and zooplankton abundances as well as on the early biofouling process was investigated in a coastal la goon of Tahiti, French Polynesia. This study is based on the hypothesis of an enhanced biological production due to increased amounts of nutrient input caused by terrestrial fresh water supply to the sea. Presented data showed a significantly larger growth of algal turfs exposed to the freshwater spring. Plankton evaluations suggest ed slightly higher wet weights and abundances around the freshwater. The implemented stationary photo sampling of fish resulted likewise in a significantly higher fish occurrence around the freshwater spring. The presented data suggest that the elevated nutrient concentrations transmitted by SGD may cause a bottom up control resulting in higher zooplankton and fish abundances around SGD.
Project(s):	Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) (URI: https://www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/)
Coverage:	LATITUDE: -17.670000 * LONGITUDE: -149.450000
	DATE/TIME START: 2014-03-04T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2014-03-04T00:00:00
Event(s):	Tahiti_lagoon * LATITUDE: -17.670000 * LONGITUDE: -149.450000 * LOCATION: Tahiti, French Polynesia * METHOD/DEVICE: Biology (BIO)
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0) (URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Size:	4 datasets
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/* TABULAR SUMMARY OF DATASETS LISTED IN THIS COLLECTION: */
Filename	Citation of child dataset
Tahiti_biofouling.tab	Starke, Claudia; Ekau, Werner; Moosdorf, Nils (2018): Early biofouling processes in a coastal lagoon of Tahiti, French Polynesia. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888411
Tahiti_biofouling_complete.tab	Starke, Claudia; Ekau, Werner; Moosdorf, Nils (2018): Early biofouling processes in a coastal lagoon of Tahiti, French Polynesia (complete set). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888410
Tahiti_data-images-links.tab	Starke, Claudia; Ekau, Werner; Moosdorf, Nils (2018): Spring and control data and associated images for a coastal lagoon of Tahiti, French Polynesia. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888414
Tahiti_zooscan.tab	Starke, Claudia; Ekau, Werner; Moosdorf, Nils (2018): ZooScan data for a coastal lagoon of Tahiti, French Polynesia. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888415
