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."
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 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.850190.1 [access date]
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