Dataset: Community composition (relative abundance) separated by native and cryptogenic, and introduced species of each community from coastal sites across a geographic gradient spanning the sub-arctic to the tropics from 2015-2017

Release Date:2021-08-30Final with updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.850190.1Version 1 (2021-04-23)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Amy L. Freestone (Temple University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Gregory E. Ruiz (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)

Co-Principal Investigator: Mark E. Torchin (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

Scientist: Laura J. Jurgens (Temple University)

Scientist: Carmen Schlöder (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

Student: Mariana Bonfim (Temple University)

Student, Contact: Diana Paola López (Temple University)

Student: Michele F. Repetto (Temple University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Community Effects of Competition and Predation across Latitude and Implications for Species Invasions (Competition and Predation across Latitude)


Abstract

Community composition of sessile marine invertebrates from coastal sites across a geographic gradient spanning the sub-arctic to the tropics. Community composition is divided into two data sets. One corresponds to the community composition of the introduced species found in each community, and the other data set corresponds to the community composition of native and cryptogenic species found in each community.

The main data table served from this Dataset Metadata Page includes data columns "Species" and "Abundance"  (See "Parameters" section for more details about columns in the main data table).  An alternate format of this dataset is available in the "Data Files" section which has an abundance column per species with a form of the species name as the column name. 

The alternate data format has two separate tables divided by whether it is for introduced species or native and cryptogenic species.  That information is included in the main data table for this dataset in column "Species_status_type."


Related Datasets

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Dataset: Trait data: native, cryptogenic, introduced species
Relationship Description: Trait data for species in this dataset.
Lopez, D. P., Freestone, A. (2021) Trait data captured from literature sources, field observations and measurements of sessile marine invertebrates from coastal sites across a geographic gradient spanning the sub-arctic to the tropics from 2015 to 2017. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2021-04-23 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.850202.1
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Dataset: https://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/
Welcome to NEMESIS! National Estuarine and Marine Exotic Species Information System (NEMESIS). Marine Invasions Research, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. (n.d.). https://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/.

Related Publications

Results

López, D. P., & Freestone, A. L. (2020). History of co‐occurrence shapes predation effects on functional diversity and structure at low latitudes. Functional Ecology, 35(2), 535–545. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13725