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.
Pringle, J. M., Byers, J. E., Wares, J. P. (2015) Database of marine invertebrate dispersal parameters and species ranges including locations along East Coast of North America (CoastBenthBiogeo project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version waiting for validation) Version Date 2015-04-06 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/555322 [access date]
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