Data from: Biodiversity and biogeographic affinity of benthic amphipods from the Yucatan Shelf: an analysis across the warm Northwest Atlantic ecoregions

• Main Author: Paz-Ríos, CE.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Peracarida; Amphipoda; Data paper; Presence records; Biodiversity; Crustacea; Gulf of Mexico; Journal article; Tropical Western Atlantic; Benthos; Macroinfauna; Davidson; Wilkinson; Carrera; Molnar; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5483583; https://zenodo.org/record/5483583

The resource provides a list of 491 species representing the biodiversity of benthic amphipods from 12 ecoregions in the Northwest Atlantic. The dataset contains an Excel sheet with species occurrence data from benthic marine habitats of the continental shelf (< 200 m), forming a comprehensive collection of distributional data (presence-only) that was obtained from different sources and newly-sampled material in the Yucatan continental shelf, and sorted according to the ecoregions. This information form part of a published article in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity (Paz-Ríos et al. 2021). To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1947920 Eleven ecoregions defined by Spalding et al. (2007) were used for sorting species occurrence data; an additional ecoregion defined by Wilkinson et al. (2009) was also used to represent the species occurrence data in the Yucatan continental shelf. Ecoregion names: (BAH) Bahamian; (BER) Bermuda; (CAR) Carolinian; (ECA) Eastern Caribbean; (FLO) Floridian; (GRA) Greater Antilles; (NGM) Northern Gulf of Mexico; (SCA) Southern Caribbean; (SWCA) Southwestern Caribbean; (SGM) Southern Gulf of Mexico; (WCA) Western Caribbean; and (YUC) Yucatan. : This resource is product of the first author's doctoral thesis titled "Diversidad, ecología y biogeografía de anfípodos bentónicos (Crustacea: Amphipoda) de la plataforma continental de Yucatán, SE del Golfo de México", developed in 2019 as a student in the "Laboratorio de Biodiversidad Marina y Cambio Climatico (BIOMARCCA)" from the research institute "El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Campeche (ECOSUR)". : {"references": ["Paz-R\u00edos CE, Pech D, Carrera-Parra LF, Sim\u00f5es N. 2021. Biodiversity and biogeographic affinity of benthic amphipods from the Yucatan Shelf: an analysis across the warm Northwest Atlantic ecoregions. Systematics and Biodiversity. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1947920", "Spalding, M. D., Fox, H. E., Allen, G. R., Davidson, N., Ferda~na, Z. A., Finlayson, M., Halpern, B. S., Jorge, M. A., Lombana, A., Lourie, S. A., Martin, K. D., McManus, E., Molnar, J., Recchia, C. A., & Robertson, J. (2007). Marine ecoregions of the World: A bioregionalization of coast and shelf areas. BioScience, 57, 573\u2013583. https://doi.org/10.1641/B570707", "Wilkinson, T., Wiken, E., Bezaury-Creel, J., Hourigan, T., Agardy, T., Herrmann, H., Janishevski, L., Madden, C., Morgan, L., & Padilla, M. (2009). Marine ecoregions of North America. Commission for Environmental Cooperation."]}