Synthesis of doliolid imagery and oceanographic data from six ecosystems collected from multiple research cruises conducted between 2010 and 2019

<p>This dataset is a synthesis of doliolid imagery and oceanographic data from six ecosystems collected from multiple research cruises conducted between 2010 and 2019. The data are organized into the following folders/files:</p>

<p>1.DoliolidAbundances-All – This folder contains the calculated concentrations and average oceanographic variables in each bin from both automated (using computer vision) and manually verified data.</p>

<p>2. DoliolidEnvironment-Automated – This folder contains the raw data from the different ecosystems generated with computer vision algorithms where each row is an individual doliolid and all of the oceanographic parameters associated with it.</p>

<p>3. DoliolidEnvironment-Manual – This folder contains the manually verified doliolid identifications in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California. Southern California had individual \"casts\" analyzed, so the times for these chunks of data are also contained in this folder</p>

<p>4. GulfofMexicoDoliolidImages-ManuallyClassified – This folder contains actual images identified to 3 different life stages of doliolids from the northern Gulf of Mexico.</p>

<p>5. GulfPhysicalOceanographicData – This folder contains oceanographic sensor data from the towed imaging system, as well as linearly interpolated data used to make plots of the doliolid distributions in the paper.</p>

<p>6. LiteratureReview-PSEM – This folder contains a compilation of data from two open-access databases used to make some calculations in the published manuscript. The folder also contains the data frame used to run the piecewise structural equation models (PSEM).</p>

<p>7. R-Scripts – This folder contains the R-scripts used to conduct all analyses synthesizing these datasets</p>

<p>8. DolTransectLocations.csv&nbsp;– This file&nbsp;contains the Start and Stop latitudes and longitudes for all of the transects analyzed in the manuscript. This was used to generate the map in the manuscript. BCO-DMO converted this file from Microsoft Excel format to .csv.</p>

<p>The Supplemental File named \"File_Descriptions.pdf\" contains additional details on each file within each folder.</p>