Dataset: 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.

Release Date:2021-08-30Final with updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.850202.1Version 1 (2021-04-23)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Amy L. Freestone (Temple University)

Student, Contact: Diana Paola López (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

Trait data captured from literature sources, field observations (2015 to 2017) and measurements of sessile marine invertebrates from coastal sites across a geographic gradient spanning the sub-arctic to the tropics.

These data were used for the publication Lopez and Freestone (2020).


Related Datasets

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Dataset: Community composition separated by native and cryptogenic, and introduced species of each community
Relationship Description: Field data referenced in this trait dataset.
Freestone, A., Torchin, M., Lopez, D. P., Bonfim, M., Jurgens, L., Repetto, M. F., Schloder, C., Ruiz, G. (2021) 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. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2021-04-23 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.850190.1
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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