1c0f1ce4221451619c375a3d0c379ef3 English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2025-06-09T09:13:38 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Ecology and physiology of coralliths at Vavvaru Island, Maldives, March 2015 British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048VavvaruIslandsCoralliths 2018-02-06 publication 2023-12-06 creation 2023-12-08 revision EDMED6616 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ Dataset was collated from surveys in the west side of Vavvaru Island, Lhaviyani Atoll, Maldives. The data were collected as a series of triplicate 25 m x 2 m transects parallel to shore, at three locations on the reef flat: near (70 m from the shore), mid (140 m from the shore) and far (210 m from the shore). All locations were at similar depths of 1 m. This took place during March 2015. Along each transect the number and size of all coralliths and total number of non-free living individuals were recorded, along with several environmental parameters (Water Temperature, Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR), Total Alkalinity, Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Dissolved Oxygen). Abundance and size of coralliths was recorded through non-invasive techniques and the environmental parameters were obtained through multiple instruments: Fluorometer, Oxygen sensor, spectrophotometry, titration and a PAR logger. The aim was to examine whether corals have the capacity to create their own stable habitat through 'free-living stabilisation'. The work was supported by an Independent Research Fellowship from NERC to Sebastian Hennige (NE/K009028/1; NE/K009028/2), an Independent Research Fellowship from the Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland to Heidi Burnett, an Independent Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh / Scottish Government (RSE 48701/1) and NERC (NE/H010025) to Nick Kamenos, a Gilchrist Fieldwork Award to Heidi Burnett, Sebastian Hennige and Nick Kamenos by the Gilchrist Educational Trust, administered by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), and a Research Incentive Grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to Heidi Burnett, Sebastian Hennige and Nick Kamenos (grant # 70013). Field sampling was under permission from the Maldives Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture ((OTHR) 30-D/lNDIV/2015). Data have been received by BODC as raw files. Unknown University of Glasgow, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences Unknown +44 (0)141 330 5436 Gregory Building Glasgow Lanarkshire G12 8QQ United Kingdom inapplicable owner Unknown University of Glasgow, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences Unknown +44 (0)141 330 5436 Gregory Building Glasgow Lanarkshire G12 8QQ United Kingdom inapplicable originator Unknown University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences Unknown +44 (0)131 650 4842 The King's Buildings, West Mains Road Edinburgh Midlothian EH9 3JW United Kingdom info@geos.ed.ac.uk https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/ owner Unknown University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences Unknown +44 (0)131 650 4842 The King's Buildings, West Mains Road Edinburgh Midlothian EH9 3JW United Kingdom info@geos.ed.ac.uk https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Light absorption in the water column Temperature of the water column Total dissolved inorganic carbon (TCO2) concentration in the water column Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available otherRestrictions No conditions apply English oceans 73.3493 73.3951 5.4157 5.4223 SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision Indian Ocean SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision Arabian Sea 2015-03-01 2015-03-30 Delimited Image https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/4f8efa6e-3c92-5f3e-e053-6c86abc0b543/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/4f8efa6e-3c92-5f3e-e053-6c86abc0b543 Hennige S.; Burdett H.; Perna G.; Kamenos N. 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