LTE-MD-BIRD-HAY-DATA.02 Robert Buchsbaum

Massachusetts Audubon, North Shore Endicott Regional Center 356 Grapevine Road Wenham MA 01984 USA

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER Program

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ 2004 Birds observed in newly hayed and adjacent reference sites. August through September 2000 and August 2001. PIE LTER primary production organic matter population dynamics salt marsh haying birds Acceptance and utilization of PIE-LTER data requires that: The Principal Investigator be sent a notice stating reasons for acquiring any data and a description of the publication intentions. The Principal Investigator of the data set be sent a copy of the report or manuscript prior to submission and be adequately cited in any resultant publications A copy of any resultant publications should be sent to: Principal Investigator Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA 02543 http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/data/LTE/LTE-MD-BIRD-HAY-DATA.html Between Sawyer Creek and Stackyard Rd -70.841 -70.841 42.744 42.744 2000-08-03 2001-08-28 Version 01, initial Excel to EML metadata Version 02 keyword update Data Manager

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ 10 min point count at boundary of two marshes then walk transect line through middle of hayed and reference marshes. NOTES AND COMMENTS: Time was not consistently recorded but all sampling done in late afternoon. Data for a station at one time include counts of individual species and total birds. Where the variables “feeding” and “resting” are are blank on the spreadsheet, it indicates that birds were counted but their activities were not recorded. CALCULATIONS: The species entry “total birds” is derived from summing the individual species. Anne Giblin

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7488 agiblin@mbl.edu Lead PI Hap Garritt

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu Information Manager The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER is an integrated research, education and outreach program whose goal is to develop a predictive understanding of the long-term response of watershed and estuarine ecosystems at the land-sea interface to changes in climate, land use and sea level. The principal study site is the Plum Island Sound estuary, its coupled Parker, Rowley and Ipswich River watersheds and the adjacent coastal ocean, the Gulf of Maine. The PIE LTER focuses on how several aspects of global change influence organic matter and inorganic nutrient biogeochemistry and estuarine foodwebs. The inputs of organic matter and nutrients from land, ocean and marshes interact with the external drivers (climate, land use, river discharge, sea level) to dictate the extent and degree of nutrient and organic matter processing and determine the spatial patterns of estuarine productivity and trophic structure. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants OCE-9726921, OCE-0423565. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER site, is located in northeastern Massachusetts, 42.72 N, 70.85 W. The PIE LTER lies at the interface of a thinly soiled, formerly glaciated New England land mass and the highly productive Gulf of Maine. Three watersheds comprise the estuarine drainage basin: Parker (155 km2), Rowley (26 km2) and Ipswich (404 km2). The Ipswich River watershed is highly urbanized with Boston "bedroom" communities encroaching in the headwater region while the Parker is less urbanized and retains a higher proportion of forest. -71.2198 -70.7568 42.8276 42.4965 0 100 meter uid=PIE,o=lter,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all public read LTE-MD-BIRD-HAY-DATA.dat Birds observed in newly hayed and adjacent reference sites. August through September 2000 and August 2001. LTE-MD-BIRD-HAY-DATA.dat 1 column , http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/data/LTE/data/LTE-MD-BIRD-HAY-DATA.dat DATE DATE date when observations were made dd-mmm-yyyy TIME TIME Approximate time when observations began. Not rigorously recorded, but all observations were carried out during the late afternoon. hhmm SITE SITE location where observations were made location where observations were made TREATMENT TREATMENT shows if site is a hayed area or a reference area shows if site is a hayed area or a reference area SPECIES SPECIES Common names of the bird species observed. Common names of the bird species observed. NUMBER NUMBER Number of individual birds observed during the observation period. Counts are given both for individual bird species and for the total number of birds observed during each observation period. dimensionless whole FEEDING FEEDING Count of individual birds observed to be feeding. dimensionless whole RESTING RESTING Count of individual birds observed to be resting. dimensionless whole COMMENTS COMMENTS additional notes pertaining to the observations additional notes pertaining to the observations