pisco.data: PISCO multi-year and spatially-explicit mussel and environmental dataset
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.
Usage
data(pisco.data)
Arguments
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.