Species groupings

Species groupings from a variety of NEFSC EDAB products are included in this data set.

species_groupings

Format

1022 rows and 15 columns

  • COMNAME: Common name of listed species.

  • SVSPP: NEFSC BTS database species codes.

  • ITISSPP: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) species identifier.

  • NESPP3: Species codes used in CFDBS.

  • SCINAME: Scientific name of listed species.

  • Fed.managed: Management body. One of NEFMC, MAFMC, JOINT (MAFMC/NEFMC), or NA.

  • SOE.17: Feeding guild groupings used in 2017-2018 SOE reports.

  • EMAX: Groupings adapted from Link et al. 2006.

  • RPATH: Groupings from Rpath - the R version of the Ecopath with Ecosim model.

  • SOE.18: Feeding guild groupings used in 2018-2019 SOE reports.

  • SizeCat: Size category.

  • Min.size: Minimum size.

  • Garrison.Link: Groupings adapted from Garrison and Link 2000.

  • NEIEA: Simplified feeding guilds for NE-IEA website.

  • SOE.20: Feeding guild groupings used in 2020+ SOE reports.

Details

More information about these species groupings may be found at https://noaa-edab.github.io/tech-doc/aggroups.html.

References

Garrison, Lance P, and Jason S Link. 2000. “Dietary guild structure of the fish community in the Northeast United States continental shelf ecosystem.” Marine Ecology Progress Series 202:231–40.

Link, Jason S, Carolyn A Griswold, Elizabeth T Methratta, and Jessie Gunnard. 2006. Documentation for the energy modeling and analysis exercise (EMAX). US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Lucey, S. 2019. Rpath - the R version of the Ecopath with Ecosim model. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. https://github.com/slucey/RpathDev.