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.本数据集针对2012年与2013年6月至10月美国西海岸不同纬度带贻贝的热缓冲潜力展开研究。本次研究测定了两类区域的潮间带海洋生境温度：一是实验构建的岩石裸斑块水平表面，二是两种生物成因生境的内部环境；这两种生境分别以建群种加州贻贝（Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837）和垫状丛生的"黑松"藻类黑松藻（Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda, 1982）为优势类群。