2-Dimensional habitat files for 47 representative marine species

2D marine species habitats in NetCDF format on 0.5*0.5 degree global regular grid. Based on Close et al. (2006) and converted from .CSV format.  Filename is in format 'presence_speciesnumber.nc' where species numbers are listed in the README.txt file (identifier for each species). The README.txt file further contains each species' species_group which is the assigned depth group for each species (1=0-200m epipelagic, 2=200-1000m mesopelagic, 3=sea floor demersal) and species_name which is the Latin name of each species with underscore in between. The species occurs where the variable 'presence' equals 1 (in the accompanying paper we assume this to be the 1995-2014 climatological mean distribution). In the NetCDF files, the variable 'presence' has as an attribute 'species' which contains the Latin species name without underscore.