A collection of Aquamaps native layers in NetCDF format

Abstract

Many research communities working in biology and related fields are deeply interested in having a wide collection of environmental and species distribution data. Obviously, for these communities to be able to carry out their studies in a fast and efficient manner, these data need to be well organized, meticulously described and possibly represented in a standard format that allows for a direct usage. In fact, being the final goal of these communities to extract information from the data and applying some kind of data processing workflows, cutting down the data preparation and preprocessing time is key. This is the main reason that triggered the activity presented in this paper that aimed at converting the whole collection of 10,385 species distribution models published by the Aquamaps consortium (Aquamaps Native Distributions) into NetCDF files, creating a re-usable, portable and self-describing collection of native habitat datasets.

The geographic distribution of reef and oceanic manta rays (Mobula alfredi and Mobula birostris) in Australian coastal waters

“…For example, manta rays reported as far south as Cheynes Beach (34.9°S, Albany, WA) coincided with an exceptional “marine heatwave”, where sea surface temperatures peaked at up to 5°C warmer than normal, and temporary range extensions of many marine fishes were recorded (Pearce et al ., ; Pearce & Feng, ). The M. alfredi distribution reported here is in agreement with computer‐modelled distributions that show a decrease in occurrence probability at more southerly latitudes (Kesner‐Reyes et al ., ; Scarponi et al ., ). Aquamap modelled distributions suggest that under climate change, M. alfredi will experience a more permanent southerly range extension in line with those reported during recent marine heatwaves.…”

Global-scale parameters for ecological models

“…The quality of the data from our previous studies was already verified in the original publications (referred in Tables 1-4), and in other additional publications 12,16,17,[41][42][43][44] . Therefore, we technically validated these files by checking their ESRI-GRID version consistency with the original files.…”

“…We focussed this analysis on a data collection subset containing newly produced data at 0.1° resolution, annually aggregated from 2016 to 2020 (Table 1). We selected these data because they were not previously explicitly validated in other publications, and were thus differentiated from the other data whose content was instead validated in other publications 12,16,17,[41][42][43][44] . The selected data were the following (Fig.…”

Metabolic Regulation, Oxygen Limitation and Heat Tolerance in a Subtidal Marine Gastropod Reveal the Complexity of Predicting Climate Change Vulnerability

“…Turritella bacillum (Kiener, 1843) is widespread in the South China Sea, having a southern equatorial limit in Malaysia and Indonesia and a northern distribution limit in Japan ( Scarponi et al, 2018 ). It is a suspension-feeding subtidal gastropod that remains buried below the sediment surface when not searching for a mate ( Figure 1 ; Allmon, 2011 ; Waite and Allmon, 2016 ).…”