A four-month transplant experiment from February to June 2012 investigated the phenotypic plasticity of habitat-forming seaweeds. Juvenile Ecklonia radiata and Phyllospora comosa were transplanted from New South Wales to Tasmania and monitored using multiple performance indicators. The dataset was contributed by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Modeling growth responses to temperature changes based on monitored growth indicators.
- Analyzing photosynthetic adaptation based on photosynthetic characteristics and pigment content data.
- Studying nutritional and biochemical changes based on chemical composition and stable isotope measurements.
- Assessing genetic expression or stress responses based on nucleic acid data mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data collection spanned four months from February to June 2012, providing a defined temporal snapshot.
- Multiple performance indicators were used, including growth, photosynthetic characteristics, pigment content, chemical composition, stable isotopes, and nucleic acids.
- The experiment involved a controlled latitudinal transplant between two distinct climate zones (NSW and Tasmania).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Data was gathered from a controlled transplant experiment monitoring juvenile seaweeds.
- Time Range
- February 2012 to June 2012
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 19:28:58.264387; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New South Wales (source) and Tasmania (destination), Australia