Benthic ecoregionalization based on echinoid fauna of the Southern Ocean supports current proposals of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas under IPCC scenarios of climate change - Model output

• Main Authors: Fabri-Ruiz, Salomé, Danis, Bruno, Navarro, Nicolas, Koubbi, Philippe, Laffont, Rémi, Saucede, Thomas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10796369

The data provided is related to a published study (Fabri-Ruiz et al., 2020) that aimed to conduct a benthic ecoregionalization of the Southern Ocean (SO) for the first time, utilizing abiotic environmental parameters and the distribution of echinoid fauna. This approach involves a two-step process, combining species distribution modeling with Random Forest and Gaussian Mixture modeling to define current ecoregions and predict future ecoregions under different Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios (RCP 4.5 and 8.5). We provide here individual ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species for the current and future periods (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) and ecoregions for the current and future periods (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). For more details see Fabri-Ruiz et al, 2020 or contact [e-mail] FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_probability_map_output_current : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, probability maps for the current period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_binary_map_output_current_period : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, binary maps for the current period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_probability_map_output_RCP4_5_scenario : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, probability maps for the RCP4.5 period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_binary_map_output_RCP4_5_scenario : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, binary maps for the RCP4.5 period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_probability_map_output_RCP8_5_scenario : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, probability maps for the RCP8.5 period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_binary_map_output_RCP8_5_scenario : Ecological niche model outputs for each echinoid species, binary maps for the RCP8.5 period FabriRuiz_et_al_2020_GCB_Ecoregions : Ecoregions generated by the Gaussian Mixture Model approach for each scenarios