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Dataset: Range_Taxonomy_LifeHistory_Location
Deployment: lab_UNH-model

Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges
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)
Current State: 
Final with updates expected
Version: 
working
Version Date: 
2015-04-06
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.
 

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