Description
Annual surveys are undertaken to sample bottom-sediment for biological and geochemical analyses at six stations at a depth of approximately 34 m in the vicinity of the Waianae Wastewater Treatment Plant outfall diffuser on the leeward coast of Oahu, Hawaii. All stations had sediment fractions with >90% sand. Silt fractions were no more than 4% at any station. Oxidation- reduction-potential (ORP) and total-volatile-solids measurements of these sediments indicated a nonreducing benthic environment at all stations. This data set contains examination of the sediments for species, abundance, and richness of nonmollusks, crustacean, molluscan, nematode, oligochaete, and polychaete faunas. A PDF document provides annual summaries for 2001-2010 while data files hold similar data for 2006-2009.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- abundance given in trophic and motility categories
- acid bath fraction percent abundance of polychaete species
- acid fraction data
- benthic biology
- benthic fauna
- biological data
- biology
- central pacific ocean
- coastal data
- coastal processes
- coral reef
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- crustaceans species
- earth science
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- honolulu
- marine sediments
- mhi
- mullosks species
- near sea floor bottom around 34m
- non-mollosks species
- north pacific
- numeric data sets
- oahu
- oahu (21n157w0003)
- oahu island
- ocean basin
- oceans
- oligochaetes species
- oxidation-reduction potential
- pacific ocean
- polychaetes species
- richness
- sediment composition
- sediment fractions by weight
- sediment grain size
- taxon abundance
- total organic carbon
- total volatile solids
- united states of america
- waianae
- waianae wastewater treatment plant