pisco.data: PISCO multi-year and spatially-explicit mussel and...

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Description

Contains the mean annual chl-a concentration, sea surface temperature, upwelling currents, and mussel abundance at 48 intertidal sites along the West Coast of the United States from 2000-2003.

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Format

A data frame with 192 observations on the following 7 variables.

latitude

latitude (degrees North)

longitude

longitude (degrees West)

chl

mean annual remote sensed chlorophyll-a concentration

sst

mean annual remote sensed sea surface temperature

upwelling

mean annual remote sensed upwelling currents

mussel_abund

mean annual mussel cover (Mytilus californianus)

year

sampling year

References

Gouhier, T. C., F. Guichard, and B. A. Menge. 2010. Ecological processes can synchronize marine population dynamics over continental scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:8281-8286.

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synchrony documentation built on March 26, 2020, 7:14 p.m.