Global-scale parameters for ecological models

• Published in: Scientific Data
• Main Authors: Gianpaolo Coro, Pasquale Bove, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2023
• Subjects: Science; Q; Western Basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3; https://doaj.org/article/4a28078969294bf19d0364c0c665b50a

Measurement(s) habitat similarity • Time Series Analysis • Principal Component Technology Type(s) Habitat Representativeness Score • Cross-Correlation • Principal Component Analysis Factor Type(s) Sea-bottom and sea-surface dissolved oxygen, salinity, and temperature • Sea net primary production • Sea ice concentration • Average, minimum, maximum sea depth • Average, minimum, maximum elevation • Distance of a square marine area from land and its fraction covered by water • Indication of the belonging Large Marine Ecosystem (LME), Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW), Major Ocean Basins, and Marine Protected Area (MPA) • Number of islands • Water area that lies within the shelf, slope, and abyssal zones • Tidal range extension • Coral density • Estuary and seamount presence • Carbon dioxide flux at soil • Air surface temperature • Precipitation • Difference between air surface temperature and sea surface temperature • World population density • Sediment thickness • Atmospheric concentration of methane and nitrous oxide • Earth heat flow • Distance from crust plates • Earthquake density, depth, magnitude • Groundwater resources Sample Characteristic - Environment climate system Sample Characteristic - Location Oceans and Seas • Adriatic Sea • Aegean Sea • Baltic Sea • Bay of Biscay • Black Sea • Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin • North Sea • Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin