Thermal buffering potential of mussels across latitude from a study on the West coast of the United States from June to October of 2012 and 2013.

This datasets represent a study of thermal buffering potential of mussels across latitude on the West coast of the United States from June - October of 2012 and 2013. We measured marine intertidal habitat temperatures on horizontal surfaces in experimentally formed rock clearings and inside two different biogenic habitats dominated by the foundation species Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837, the California mussel, and the turf-forming ‘black pine’ alga, Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda, 1982.