4: Functional Traits Across Seabed Habitats

Exploring Functional Traits Across Seabed Habitats in the Aegean Sea

Integrate EMODnet data with external trait databases and Copernicus Marine Service environmental data. Investigate how benthic species body size varies across habitat types and environmental gradients in the Aegean Sea.

Tutorial Content

This tutorial is currently under development.

What You’ll Learn

• Demonstrating combined use of emodnet.wfs, emodnet.wcs, and CopernicusMarine packages
• Retrieving and visualising body size traits for benthic species using trait databases
• Exploring trait–environment relationships across habitat types
• Practical geospatial workflows including raster extraction and spatial joins

Data Sources

• EMODnet WFS:
  • eb185_benthos_full_matched: Benthic species records in the Aegean
  • eu_seabed_habitats_2019: Seabed habitat polygons
• EMODnet WCS:
  • emodnet__mean_2020: Bathymetry raster (mean depth of seafloor)
• Copernicus Marine Service:
  • GLOBAL_MULTIYEAR_PHY_001_030: Bottom temperature and/or salinity reanalysis data
• External Resources:
  • MOBS (Marine Organism Body Size) database: github.com/crmcclain/MOBS_OPEN

Study Area

Aegean Sea

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