Dataset of Plymouth fouling communities to support chapter 4 of the Southampton doctoral thesis 'The influence of contemporary climate change on native and non-native marine and brackish species' by E. McKnight

Dataset supports my thesis chapter 4: Community composition and trajectory are altered by different salinity regimes. Plymouth fouling communities 1 excel file - tabulated data in a spreadsheet Community composition of fouling panels in Plymouth sound. Community composition was recorded monthly from settlement panels in Plymouth marina. This dataset contains: Excel file contains one tab with a completed data set. Data is in long format. Data shows species percent cover on fouling panels recorded monthly across 2 years. Environmental parameters have been added to each row. Environmental parameters show a temperature and salinity min, mean and max at the point of biological measure. The difference or change between these points has also been added. Species characteristics along with dates and day count and sampling id have been added too. Temp is measured in degrees Salinity PSU Precipitation millimetres Abun_scaled - each species were scaled against its maximum percent cover across all panels. Change or difference is the change in an environmental factors or species cover between time points. Date of data collection: 01/04/2017 - 01/04/2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: Plymouth Sound Licence: CC by Related projects/Funders: NERC grant number NE/L002531/1 Date that the file was created: July, 2019 Ella McKnight University of Southampton orcid.org/0000-0003-3313-3910