Sequence read accession (SRA) numbers and collection metadata for coral microbiome collected in Moorea, French Polynesia from Jul 2018 to Aug 2020

Abstract

This dataset contains the complete sample information for the 16S rRNA gene V4 region amplicon sequencing data associated with the NCBI SRA accession from BioProject PRJNA994532. All raw sequencing data can be found at this publicly available NCBI SRA BioProject.

The associated samples were collected from an in situ coral manipulative experiment in Moorea, French Polynesia between 2018-2020 from Acropora retusa, Porites lobata, and Pocillopora spp. Data collection was a multi-university collaborative effort between the Vega Thurber Laboratory, at Oregon State University during the time of the experiment, and the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara. The experiment, conducted on the fore reef on the north shore of the island, evaluated the interaction of consumer pressure level (termed "Herbivory" in the dataset and in Vompe et al., 2023) and nutrient enrichment on coral microbiome composition and host success. The experiment also captured two severe and sequential marine heatwaves in 2019 and 2020. This experiment aimed to evaluate whether managing local inputs, including water column nutrient levels and fishing regimes, interacts with heat stress to affect coral success. Coral microbiomes were sampled as these microbial communities are known to interact with host health during heat stress. The data herein correspond to the microbiomes of the sampled corals.

For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/954262