Global-scale parameters for ecological models

Abstract

Measurement(s) habitat similarity • Time Series Analysis • Principal Component Technology Type(s) Habitat Representativeness Score • Cross-Correlation • Principal Component Analysis Factor Type(s) Sea-bottom and sea-surface dissolved oxygen, salinity, and temperature • Sea net primary production • Sea ice concentration • Average, minimum, maximum sea depth • Average, minimum, maximum elevation • Distance of a square marine area from land and its fraction covered by water • Indication of the belonging Large Marine Ecosystem (LME), Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW), Major Ocean Basins, and Marine Protected Area (MPA) • Number of islands • Water area that lies within the shelf, slope, and abyssal zones • Tidal range extension • Coral density • Estuary and seamount presence • Carbon dioxide flux at soil • Air surface temperature • Precipitation • Difference between air surface temperature and sea surface temperature • World population density • Sediment thickness • Atmospheric concentration of methane and nitrous oxide • Earth heat flow • Distance from crust plates • Earthquake density, depth, magnitude • Groundwater resources Sample Characteristic - Environment climate system Sample Characteristic - Location Oceans and Seas • Adriatic Sea • Aegean Sea • Baltic Sea • Bay of Biscay • Black Sea • Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin • North Sea • Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin