Data from "Drivers of larval growth and settlement success: The role of environmental and early life history traits in the blenny <i>Ophioblennius trinitatis</i>"
<p dir="ltr">This dataset contains monthly environmental and biological data collected from January 2011 to April 2016 in the Tamandaré Reef Complex, off northeastern Brazil in the Western Tropical Atlantic. The data were obtained to investigate the influence of environmental variability on the abundance of pre-settlement <i>Ophioblennius trinitatis</i> larvae captured with light traps.</p><p dir="ltr">The dataset includes the following variables: <b>Year</b> – sampling year; <b>Month</b> – sampling month; <b>Season</b> – austral season of the sampling period (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring); <b>Sea surface temperature (°C)</b> – average monthly sea surface temperature; <b>Sea surface salinity</b> – average monthly sea surface salinity; <b>Wind direction (incident angle)</b> – predominant wind direction expressed in degrees; <b>Wind speed (m s⁻¹)</b> – average monthly wind speed; <b>Rainfall (mm m⁻²)</b> – monthly accumulated precipitation; <b>Chlorophyll-a (mg m⁻³)</b> – monthly mean surface chlorophyll-a concentration; <b>Total abundance of pre-settlement larvae</b> – total number of reef fish pre-settlement larvae collected per month.</p>
