This dataset was utilized for a research article that is being published by the ICES Journal of Marine Science and is currently in press.  See article for details on species mobility and habitat factors.

Title: “Gauging oxygen risk and tolerance for the megafauna of the southern California shelf based on in situ observation, species mobility and seascape

Publication Year: 2020

Authors: Ed Parnell, Lisa Levin, Mike Navarro

Institution: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

There are two data files:

(1) ‘SpeciesMetadata.csv’ provides metadata including species codes used in the data frames for species identification.

The columns in this file include: SpeciesCode, Mobility, SpeciesName, CommonName, MajorTaxa, and Group.  Columns are delimited by “|”

Column Note:

QuantScale column: Species counting basis (individual counts, log base 4, or log base 10)


(2) ‘ROVObservationData.csv’ includes time, location, habitat data, physical exposure data, and species abundance.  Column delimiter = “|”

The columns include:

Date and Time : all values PST (USA)
Easting: east-west coordinates in UTM Zone 11 units, horizontal datum=WGS84
Northing: north-south coordinates, same as above
Depth: units meters
Temp=temperature in Degrees C
Sal=salinity in PSU
Oxy=dissolved Oxygen (ml L-1)
Grain: Sediment Grain Size, see article for description
Bedform: Type of bedform, see article for description

Remaining Columns are species counts, see species metadata for matching species codes to species names.

Revision Date: 8 May, 2020