©2026 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.This is a database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges along the East Coast of North America. The raw data for range was gathered from occurrence data in the GBIF dataset. The life history data were gathered from a Literature Review.
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This is a database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges along the East Coast of North America.
The raw data for range was gathered from occurrence data in the GBIF dataset.
Life history was gathered from a Literature Review.
The complete dataset methodology is detailed in Pappalardo P, Pringle J, Wares J, and J Byers (2015): The location, strength, and mechanisms behind marine biogeographic boundaries of the east coast of North America. Ecography 38: 001–010, 2015. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01135
Byers, J. E., Pringle, J. M., Wares, J. P. (2026). Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2015-04-01 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.554871.1 [access date]
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