Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve

10 Aug, 04 AM - 15 Aug, 05 AM

Sample aerial (sticky traps) and epigeal arthropods (pitfall traps) and vegetation (% cover and soil cores/soil seed banks) to compare Carpinteria with various other sites across southern California as per my previous description. Arthropds: Aerial arthropods are sampled with tanglefoot-covered yellow plastic sheets (Bioquip catalog # 2873). Traps are supplied in 6? x 12? sheets. These sheets are cut in half to produce 6? x 6? sheets which are then suspended over the vegetation, soil, or water surface via metal wire holders (Bioquip catalog # 2874). Traps are placed such that the lower edge of the trap is approximately 2-5 cm above the surface/canopy. If the needed height exceeds the length of the wire holder (30 cm), wire holders are taped to bamboo stakes cut to the appropriate length. Three traps are deployed per transect, spaced 10m apart. These traps are left out for 4 days, although deployments of anywhere from 3 to 6 days produce statistically indistinguishable results when standardized for days of deployment. When a deployment cycle is completed, traps are covered with clear plastic wrap (i.e. Saran Wrap) and returned to the lab for processing. Soil seed banks: Soil cores will be collected from five points along a monitoring transect in the mid- to late fall (October-early December). Our corers are simply soup cans with both lids removed. Cores are typically ~10 cm deep, but must reach a depth of at least 4 cm. When the soup can with cored soil is pulled up, care is taken to push the core up and out of the corer and maintain the core orientation. This is essential as most seeds lie within the top few millimeters of the soil surface and are potentially easily dislodged or shoved too deep into the soil surface to readily germinate. Each soil core is then individually potted with steam-sterilized soil (Supersoil, Rod McLellan Co.) into 4? nursery pots and transported to our greenhouse for incubation. Core orientation and integrity is maintained throughout the entire collection and incubation process. In the greenhouse, cores are misted for 10 minutes (enough to saturate cores) twice daily with freshwater. Germinated seedlings are counted and identified every 2 or 3 weeks for at least 3 months. While some species such as Salicornia virginica are easily identifiable within a few days of their germinating, other more cryptic species such as the Poaceae can require several months of growth for the development of flowering or fruiting structures for proper species-level identification. Hickman (1993), Mason (1957), and Munz (1974) will be used to identify species with nomenclature following Jepson Interchange (2009).

Visit #25953 @Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve

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Under Project # 24026 | Research

Ormond Beach Restoration Wetland Monitoring Project

faculty - California State University (CSU), Channel Islands

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Sean Anderson Aug 10 - 15, 2011 (6 days)
Group of 4 Undergraduate Student Aug 10 - 15, 2011 (6 days)

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