Occurrence records of ten Southern Ocean myctophid species with associated sea surface and depth-specific environmental conditions

This dataset contains occurrence records for ten Southern Ocean myctophid fish species that have been downloaded and cleaned from the online biodiversity repository GBIF. As well as providing GBIF documented metadata for each occurrence record, this dataset provides environmental conditions - specifically bathymetry, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and net primary productivity - for each record. Both sea-surface and depth-specific values for the temperature, salinity and oxygen variables are given in separate data files. A third data file of corresponding background points and their associated environmental conditions is also provided. Together these data were used as input files for the MaxEnt ecological niche models within the peer reviewed article: Freer JJ, Tarling GA, Collins MA, Partridge JC, Genner MJ (2020) Estimating circumpolar distributions of lanternfish using 2D and 3D ecological niche models, Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01336

Date (Publication): 2020-06-12

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01336

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation	Freer, J.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Water Depth
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Oxygen
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity

BAS Free-text keywords

3D modelling
Myctophidae
ecological niche model
lanternfish
species distribution model

Use limitation: Data are released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Data are released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Distance: 0.25 dd

Language: English

Topic category

Biota
Environment
Oceans

Begin date: 1956-10-01

End date: 2005-03-31

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http		GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Occurrence records for all ten species were downloaded from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). These occurrence records represent those remaining after undertaking following quality assurance and control processes. Unreliable data, which included records with identical latitude and longitude, and records with a latitude and longitude corresponding to a terrestrial location, were removed. Due to high sampling bias towards austral spring and summer seasons, only records from the months October-March were kept for analyses. Furthermore, only occurrence records from 1960 to 2010 were retained, to correspond to a similar baseline period of available environmental data. Duplicate records were excluded from model runs.

Citations for all data (occurrence and environmental data) are given in the Reference section.