AMBI species group assignments for Tampa Bay benthic taxa

Usage

ambispp

Format

A data frame with 1983 rows and 5 variables:

TaxaListID: int, join key to taxacounts in benthicdata
NAME: chr, taxon name
AMBIGroupID: int, ecological group 1-5 for conventional AMBI (Gillett et al. 2015), NA if unclassified
TBAMBIGroupID: int, ecological group 1-5 for Tampa Bay-specific AMBI, NA if unclassified
AMBIListSource: chr, provenance of the AMBI group assignment (Gulf, National, or assumption)

Details

Ecological groups range from I (most sensitive to pollution) to V (most tolerant). The conventional AMBI groups (AMBIGroupID) follow published literature (Gillett et al. 2015), with Gulf of Mexico scores preferred over National scores, and family-level assumptions applied where species-level scores were unavailable. The Tampa Bay-specific groups (TBAMBIGroupID) are based on local sediment sample assignments.

This table is used as the species lookup in anlz_ambiscr to join ecological group assignments to observed taxa counts in benthicdata.

References

Gillett, D.J., Weisberg, S.B., Grayson, T., Hamilton, A., Hansen, V., Leppo, E.W., Pelletier, M.C., et al. (2015). Effect of ecological group classification schemes on performance of the AMBI benthic index in US coastal waters. Ecological Indicators, 50, 99-107. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.11.005

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(readxl)
library(dplyr)

ambispp <- read_excel('data-raw/AMBI_EcoSource_ReportDeliverableToDK.xlsx') |>
  select(TaxaListID, NAME, AMBIGroupID, TBAMBIGroupID = TBAMBIGroupId, AMBIListSource)

save(ambispp, file = 'data/ambispp.RData', compress = 'xz')
} # }