The invasive seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis erodes the habitat structure and biodiversity of native algal forests in the Mediterranean Sea - data and scripts

Published: 16 November 2021| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/h3r8ygnjfd.1
Contributor:
Francesco Paolo Mancuso

Description

This repository contains files to reproduce the analyses carried out in the paper "The invasive seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis erodes the habitat structure and biodiversity of native algal forests in the Mediterranean Sea."

Files

Steps to reproduce

The "script" folder contains the *.Rmd files to reproduce the analysis, while the folder "data" contains the matrices with data used. The file "all_commmunity_analysis.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce Fig.4, TableS4 and TableS6; the file "alpha_diversity.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce TableS3 and Fig.3; the file "heat_tree.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce Fig2; the file "regres.analysis.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce TableS8 and Fig6; the file "Simper.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce FigS1 and TableS5; the file "site_map.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce Fig1; the file "species_table.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce TableS1, TabòeS2 and bar plots of Fig2; the file "substrate_attributes.Rmd" contains scripts to reproduce TableS7, Fig5, TableS9 and Fig7. All scripts were realized in R statistical software 3.5.1

Institutions

Universita degli Studi di Palermo

Categories

Annelida, Mollusca, Biological Invasion, Marine Biology, Coastal Habitat, Seaweed, Amphipoda

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