Marine Cryptobenthic Community Data from Urbanized Coastal Seascapes

88 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) were sampled over six years with associated long-term water quality data to study coastal cryptobenthic communities. The data, generated by Zhongyue Wan and last updated in April 2026, reveals how environmental and spatial processes interact in urbanized ecosystems. It includes findings on community resilience, the impact of nitrogen pollution, and source-sink dynamics identified through network analysis.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between nutrient pollution (e.g., Total Inorganic Nitrogen) and species richness loss based on experimental translocation data.
• Analyzing source-sink dynamics and biodiversity corridors in coastal networks based on the six-year ARMS sampling synthesis.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of coral restoration strategies (active seeding vs. passive deployment) on cryptobenthic recruitment.
• Assessing community resilience and recovery rates after stress removal based on the experimental manipulation study.

Strengths

• Includes data from 88 sampling units (ARMS) collected over a six-year period.
• Integrates long-term water quality metrics, with specific predictors like Total Inorganic Nitrogen and chlorophyll-a quantified.
• Combines experimental manipulation (translocation) with a large-scale spatial synthesis for robust inference.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• The dataset is relatively small at 48.3 MB, which may constrain the complexity of analyses.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collected using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) and COI metabarcoding.

Time Range

Sampling spanned six years (specific years not stated).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 06:00:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Urbanized coastal ecosystems (specific locations not stated).