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Table 1 List of environmental variables used in this study (from Basher et al. 2014) which were cropped to an extension of 70°N–70°S

From: Modelling present and future global distributions of razor clams (Bivalvia: Solenidae)

Layer

Unit

Type

Temporal range

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Dev.

Land distance

km × 100

–

–

0.00

24.92

6.80

5.22

Sea surface temperature (annual mean)

°C

Monthly climatology

2002–2009

−1.00

31.54

15.89

10.44

Sea surface temperature (range)

°C

Monthly climatology

2002–2009

0.00

27.81

4.26

3.08

Depth

m

–

–

−10,293.65

0

−3671.68

1602.58

Wave height

m

–

–

0.00

7.00

0.29

1.02

Photosynthetically active radiation (annual mean)

Einstein m−2 day−1

Monthly climatology

1997–2009

0.00

64.82

35.22

8.55

Chlorophyll-a concentration (annual mean)

mg m−3

Monthly climatology

2002–2009

0.02

0.90

0.05

0.04

Diffuse attenuation coefficient* (at 490 nm)

m−1

Monthly climatology

2002–2009

0.02

0.90

0.05

0.04

Primary Productivity

mg C m−2 day−1 cell−1

Annual climatology

–

0.00

4875.00

385.08

285.55

Tide average (average of maximum tidal height)

m

Annual climatology

–

0.00

6.38

0.51

0.44

Surface current

m s−1

Monthly climatology

2009–2010

−0.93

1.00

0.00

0.08

Salinity

PSS

In situ measure: 2009

1961–2009

0.00

41.00

33.96

2.09

pH

–

In situ measure: 2009

1910–2007

6.73

8.62

8.19

0.06

Dissolved oxygen

ml l−1

In situ measure: 2009

1898–2009

2.00

9.86

5.29

1.27

Saturated oxygen

ml l−1

In situ measure: 2009

1874–2000

76.05

113.11

100.10

3.23

Calcite concentration

mol m−3

Seasonal climatology

2002–2009

0.00

9.00

2.87

3.18

Silicate

μmol l−1

In situ measure: 2009

1930–1986

0.00

69.00

9.85

13.86

Nitrate

μmol l−1

In situ measure: 2009

1922–1986

0.00

45.96

5.52

6.13

Phosphate

μmol l−1

In situ measure: 2009

1874–2000

0.00

2.00

0.26

0.44

Sea surface temperature at 2100

°C

Monthly climatology

2087 – 2096

0.00

35.05

18.04

10.91

Salinity at 2100

PSS

Monthly climatology

2087–2096

0.00

40.05

34.37

1.99

Primary productivity at 2100

mg C m−2 day−1 cell−1

Annual climatology

2090–2099

0.00

5004.00

354.76

277.07

  1. Future environmental variables are in italics. Note that there were 19 variables for the Present, and 5 (including present land distance and depth as constant variables, and three future environmental variables in italics) for the Future model. Annual means were used and for sea surface temperature the annual range was also used as it was significantly different from the sea surface temperature annual mean. * An indicator of water clarity which expresses how deeply visible light in the blue to the green region of the spectrum penetrates into the water column. Distance to land was the distance to the nearest land using the Euclidean distance formula in ArcGIS