Dataset: Range_Taxonomy_LifeHistory_Location

Name: Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges including locations along East Coast of North America (CoastBenthBiogeo project)
Published: 2015-04-06
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:45.7503 E:-60.833 S:25 W:-97.3333

Project:

A mechanistic understanding of biogeographic patterns and life histories in benthic organisms in advective coastal environments (CoastBenthBiogeo)

Principal Investigator:

James E. Byers (University of Georgia, UGA)

James M. Pringle (University of New Hampshire, UNH)

Co-Principal Investigator:

John P. Wares (University of Georgia, UGA)

Contact:

Paula Pappalardo (University of Georgia, UGA)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

waiting for validation

Version Date:

2015-04-06

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Final with updates expected

Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges including locations along East Coast of North America (CoastBenthBiogeo project)

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Description

This is a database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges along East Coast of North America with latitude and longitude calculated and added programmatically.

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

There are two other datasets associated with this coordinate system:
http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/554871: Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges (NE Coast N. America)
and
http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/554893: A series of coordinates and ranges from South and North America to which species occurrences are mapped according to a model.

Data Files

File
range_taxon_life_combo.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 264.99 KB) MD5:dfc6894320634fd74686c84314c40062 Primary data file for dataset ID 555322

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961344
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961830

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_UNH-model		1999-01-01	UNH	James M. Pringle (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
phylum	the Phylum of the species	text	phylum
class	the Class of the species	text	class
order	the Order of the species	text	order
family	the Family of the species	text	family
genus_species	the binomial species name	text	species
type_of_dispersal	short” or “long” as defined in reference. If the there is a 'q'(instead of question mark) after “short” or “long” it means the dispersal style was guessed from taxonomic inference	text	no_bcodmo_term
range_min	the southern-most extent of the species range	number	no_bcodmo_term
range_max	the northern-most extent of the species range	number	no_bcodmo_term
N_occur	the number of valid and geo-referenced species occurrences used to calculate range	number	count
median_depth_occur	the median depth of the water at the location of GBIF occurrences	meters	depth
references	a short pointer to the literature source for life history data; the full reference is in the file in the metadata section	text	reference_paper
lat_min	North is positive.	decimal degrees	lat
lat_max	North is positive.	decimal degrees	lat
lon_min	West is negative	decimal degrees	lon
lon_max	West is negative.	decimal degrees	lon

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Dataset: Range_Taxonomy_LifeHistory_Location