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Thermal affinities for European marine species
Citable as data publication
Webb, T.J.; Lines, A.; (2018): Thermal affinities for European marine species. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/378
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This data product shows how to derive, summarise and visualise thermal affinities for European marine species. The aim is to derive thermal affinities for all European marine species, by matching occurrence records from OBIS to gridded temperature products. These species-level thermal affinities are then used to produce assemblage-level averages on a 0.5º grid covering European seas, separately for major functional groups (e.g. benthos, zooplankton, fish). Finally these gridded assemblage-level averages are compared to current and projected future sea temperatures to identify areas of high climate vulnerability for each functional group. more

This work is supported by EMODnet biology with additional support to TJW during development of these methods provided by the UK Marine Ecosystems Research Programme.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Fish, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Marine, Europe, Biota

Geographical coverage
Europe [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]

Contributors
University of Sheffield; School of Biological Sciences; Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (APS)data creator
Webb, Thomas
Lines, Aaron

Project
EMODNETBIO III: European Marine Observation and Data Network- Biology III

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data products
Metadatarecord created: 2019-03-22
Information last updated: 2022-06-02
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