Comprehensive Historic Biodiversity Inventory List of Boston Harbor, 1861-2020

Description

This data set is an amalgamation of records of marine and coastal species occurrence in the Boston Harbor. Taxon include marine mammals, shorebirds, fish, marine invertebrates, and marine macro algae. The earliest record acquired was from 1861. Records span through 2020. We curated records from federal and state agencies, peer reviewed and gray literature, and scientific grade research observations from public biodiversity database repositories.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6633c70dd34ea70bd5f290a0.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P1AUHDNM

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  • biodiversity
  • biota
  • marine-mammals
  • fish
  • marine-invertebrates
  • usgs-6633c70dd34ea70bd5f290a0
  • boston-harbor
  • shore-birds
  • farming
  • macro-algae
  • boston-harbor-islands-national-amp-state-park

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