Coastal Waters Consortium III (CWC III)

Panacea or Pandora’s Box: Coastal Restoration and Recreational Fishing Livelihoods in Salt Marshes of Coastal Louisiana

Description: Louisiana salt marshes provide nearly 1.2 billion pounds of seafood each year, and they remain a popular destination for sport fishing. The distribution and abundance of fish are typically synchronized with freshwater inflow patterns to the marshes. However, it remains unclear whether human activities and natural processes may affect those patterns – and the predictability of fishing forecasts. This project seeks to understand the effects of freshwater inputs into salt marsh ecosystems; and how those activities affect behaviors and livelihoods of the recreational fishing industry. To date, studies focusing on recreational fishing in salt marshes have only considered the effects of human activities on salt marshes. By contrast, this project will assess how human activities and natural processes interact, by combining empirical knowledge, fish distribution and abundance data, and environmental parameters. Model outputs from this project will help predict how ecological and socioeconomic changes affect livelihoods of recreational fishing communities.

Literature review of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values from taxa collected within and around Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Survey of Recreational Fishers (SuRF)

Socioeconomic Indicators in the LA Coastal Zone

Water parameters, catch per unit effort (CPUE), gut contents, and carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur stable isotope values of spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Barataria Bay, Louisiana, 2003-05-20 to 2004-05-18

Shoreline erosion rates along Bay Batiste, Louisiana, 2018-03-12

Measurements of islands in Terrebonne Bay, Barataria Bay and Breton Sound of Louisiana from 1989-10-24 to 2019-03-30

Marsh health and process data collected in Louisiana coastal plain marshes in May 2017, October 2017 and May 2018

COI metabarcoding sequences of seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima) fecal samples and gizzard contents collected from oiled, unoiled, and reference sites in in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2016-06-08 to 2017-06-29

Bayou virus screening data of marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) trapped on oiled and unoiled plots in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2013-06-03 to 2017-07-02

Compound-specific stable isotope analyses of fatty acids of salt marsh species from 2015-05-01 to 2017-06-30

Seaside Sparrow parent and nestling microsatellite genotypes from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2012-04-24 to 2017-06-14

Seaside Sparrow nest survival and vegetation data from Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, 2012-04-25 to 2017-06-24

Effects of oil treatment on abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, comammox bacteria, denitrifying bacteria, DNRA bacteria, and total bacteria in Louisiana salt marsh mesocosms, 2018-07-18 to 2019-08-20

DNA fingerprints (TRFLP) of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in New England salt marshes 2001-04-01 to 2017-06-28

DNA fingerprints (TRFLP) of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in New England salt marshes 2001-04-01 to 2017-06-28

Gene abundance of nitrifiers, denitrifiers, methane-oxidizers and total bacteria, nitrification rates, and sediment chemistry in four marshes on the East Coast of the United States, 2001-04-24 to 2017-06-28

Time series of water level and two-dimensional velocity collected at Barataria Pass, Louisiana, from 2018-02-15 to 2018-04-16

Suspended sediment time series data from Barataria Pass, Louisiana from 2018-02-18 to 2018-03-28

Time series water level data north of Barataria Pass, Louisiana from 2018-02-14 to 2018-03-10

FVCOM-simulated currents, salinity and suspended sediment concentrations for Barataria Bay and adjacent Louisiana-Texas continental shelf from 2010-04-01 to 2010-12-20

FVCOM-simulated currents and salinity in Barataria Bay and the adjacent Louisiana-Texas continental shelf from 2008-07-01 to 2008-09-30

Simulated pollutant transport (i.e. particle trajectories) under present-day and altered hydrologic conditions (no-diversion, one-diversion, and multiple-diversions) for Barataria Bay and adjacent continental shelf for the period 2010-05-01 to 2010-07-01

Laboratory experiments to determine effects of previous exposure to oil on Fundulus grandis avoidance behavior

Marsh predation experiments across Louisiana and North Carolina, 2015-05-12 to 2019-07-12

Laboratory experiments to determine population-level variability in Fundulus grandis behavioral response to oil

Plasma corticosterone in seaside sparrows collected in southeastern Louisiana from 2013-03-20 to 2015-06-29

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values of marsh rice rats, seaside sparrows, primary consumers and basal carbon sources from southern Louisiana salt marshes, 2015-05-01 to 2017-06-30

Southern Louisiana Marsh Food Webs: 2016 Amino Acid Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Data

Target alkane and aromatic concentrations for mesocosm sediment samples

Plant parameters assessed from random quadrat sampling in marsh mesoscosms prior to oiling: June 2018-June 2019

Plant parameters assessed from random quadrat sampling in marsh mesoscosms immediately after oiling: July-November 2019

Microphytobenthos from an experimental mesocosm system prior to oiling: High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) data collected on 2018-07-17

Meiofauna from an experimental mesocosm system prior to oiling: 2018-07-17 and 2019-06-18

Marsh Rice Rat Ecological Tracers: Bulk Stable Isotope and Fatty Acid data from marsh rice rats collected in southern Louisiana salt marshes from 2015-06-01 to 2016-06-30

Seaside Sparrow Ecological Tracers: Bulk Stable Isotope and Fatty Acid data from Seaside Sparrows collected in southern Louisiana salt marshes from 2015-06-03 to 2017-06-26

Oxidative status of seaside sparrows exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil in southeastern Louisiana, 2013-03-21 to 2015-06-21

Target alkane and aromatic concentrations for sediment samples collected in southeastern Louisiana inland and coastal marshes from 2015-02-07 to 2018-06-27

Target alkane and aromatic concentrations for water samples collected in southeastern Louisiana inland and coastal marshes and multiple R/V Pelican cruises in the Gulf of Mexico from 2015-05-12 to 2018-07-27

The assembled and annotated genome of a male marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) collected from Barataria Bay, Louisiana in 2015

Soil nitrification potential rates in marsh mesoscosms prior to oiling: July 2018-June 2019

Marsh snail densities, biomass, and lengths at LUMCON area salt marshes, 2017-2019

Bacterial diversity data supporting changes in Louisiana marsh sediment microbial communities after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2015-10-15 to 2015-10-16

Bacterial and archaeal communities in marsh soil associated with Spartina alterniflora, Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus, and Distichlis spicata in Bay Sansbois and Bay Batiste, Louisiana, 2013-2016

Bacterial and archaeal communities from marsh soil associated with Spartina alterniflora, Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus, and Distichlis spicata in Bay Sansbois and Bay Batiste, Louisiana, 2015-2016

Bacterial diversity data supporting changes in Louisiana marsh sediment microbial communities after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2015-05-12 to 2015-05-14

Water column bacterial communities in Louisiana marshes, 2015-05-12 to 2015-05-14

A microarray analysis of transcriptomic response of seaside sparrows (Ammospiza maritima) to Deepwater Horizon oil in southeastern Louisiana, 2011-08-28

Marsh soil nitrification, denitrification and greenhouse gas production rates, microbial communities, and explanatory variables collected from marshes in Terrebonne Bay, western Barataria Bay, and eastern Barataria Bay, Louisiana in July 2015

Soil and water quality data from coastal Louisiana, 1978-03-08 to 2018-01-23

Marsh and subtidal sediment microphytobenthos from three regions of coastal Louisiana: Cell concentration microscopy data from 2015-05-12 to 2017-10-13

Source data for mud budget calculations for Barataria Bay, Louisiana: Land loss (1932-2016), soil properties (2006-2009), suspended sediment concentration (1971-1990), and daily discharge data (2006-2019)

Microphytobenthos from an experimental mesocosm system prior to oiling: High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) data collected on 2019-06-18

Microphytobenthos from an experimental mesocosm system after oiling: High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) data collected 2019-08-12 and 2019-10-24

Sediment microphytobenthos from an experimental mesocosm system prior to oiling: Cell concentration microscopy data from 2018-07-17 to 2019-06-18

Sediment microphytobenthos from an experimental mesocosm system after oiling: Cell concentration microscopy data from 2019-08-12 and 2019-10-24

Meiofauna from an experimental mesocosm system after oiling: 2019-08-12

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) data from mesocosm water samples containing various concentrations of oil

Southern Louisiana marsh food webs: Bulk stable isotope and fatty acid data from multiple consumers and primary producers collected from southern Louisiana salt marshes from 2016-05-01 to 2016-05-31

Investigating contaminant impacts on consumer-resource dynamics: a meta-analysis study of contaminant and predator-prey data from 1976 to 2021

Resilience or vulnerability of gulf fisheries economies following Deepwater Horizon: An analysis of Gulf of Mexico fisheries data from 2000-2017

Individual plant stem data in LUMCON area salt marshes, 2016-2018

Phytoplankton Responses to Crude Oil and Chemical Dispersant Exposure in Laboratory Culture

Phytoplankton responses to crude oil and chemical dispersant exposure in laboratory culture: in vivo fluorescence and hydrocarbon data

Dataset for: Net land gain or loss for two Mississippi River diversions: Caernarvon and Davis Pond

Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Values, Trophic Position, and Mercury Concentration of Invertebrates, Fishes, and Seabirds in Coastal Louisiana, 2010-05-27 to 2010-12-12

Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from experimental salt marsh soil microcosms containing artificial or natural fiddler crab burrows with varying degrees of crude oil contamination

Total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) data for mesocosm sediment samples

Mercury concentrations in seaside sparrows (Ammospiza maritima) and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) and estimates of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in Barataria Bay and Breton Sound, 2015-03-18 to 2016-06-27