MARSPEC: ocean climate layers for marine spatial ecology

摘要: Abstract Ecological niche models are widely used in terrestrial studies to address critical ecological and evolutionary questions related past future climate change, local adaptation speciation, the discovery of rare endemics, biological invasions. However application similar marine ecosystems has lagged behind, part due lack a centralized high-resolution spatial data set representing both benthic pelagic environments. Here we describe creation MARSPEC, GIS database ocean layers intended for modeling other applications ecology. MARSPEC combines information topographic complexity seafloor with bioclimatic measures sea surface temperature salinity world ocean. We derived seven geophysical variables from raster grid depth (bathymetry) characterize six facets topographic...