Richness of experimental marine invertebrate communities across latitude (Competition and Predation across Latitude)

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2021-09-22
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Eastern Pacific in four coastal regions: Ketchikan, Alaska; San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; and Panama City, Panama
westlimit: -131.797; southlimit: 8.9128; eastlimit: -79.5218; northlimit: 55.4726
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10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.861234.1
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Marine invertebrate
Predation
Competition
Latitude
Marine invasion
Abstract
Richness of sessile marine invertebrate communities from coastal sites across a latitudinal gradient spanning the subarctic to the tropics. Communities developed for three or 12 months under nine different treatments that tested the effect of predation and competition. Caging was used to reduce predation pressure and biomass removals opened up space, a limiting resource in sessile communities. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/861234
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Dataset: Richness of experimental marine invertebrate communities across latitude
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Freestone, A. L., Torchin, M. E., Bonfim, M., Jurgens, L. J., López, D. P., Repetto, M. F., Schlöder, C., & Ruiz, G. E. (2022). Richness of experimental marine invertebrate communities across latitude (Competition and Predation across Latitude) (Version 1) [Data set]. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/BCO-DMO.861234.1
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