ClimateFish: A database to track the abundance of selected coastal fish species as candidate indicators of climate change

The ClimateFish database collates abundance data of 15 fish species proposed as candidate indicators of climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. Data were collected according to a simplified visual census methodology (Garrabou et al. 2019) along standard transects of five minutes performed at a constant speed of 10m/min, corresponding approximately to an area of 50x5m. Four different depth layers were surveyed: 0-3m, 5-10 m, 11-20 m, 21-30 m. So far, the ClimateFish database includes fish counts collected along 3142 transects carried out in seven Mediterranean countries between 2009 and 2021, for a total number of 101'771 observed individuals belonging to the 15 fish species.

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Provenance
Publisher Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access service; EurOBIS - EMODnet Biology
Contributor Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Brijuni National Park; Carthage University; National Institute of Agronomy; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences; Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries; International Council for the Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea; Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Italian National Research Council; Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies; Italian National Research Council; Institute for the study of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment; Mare Nostrum NGO; National Marine Park of Zakynthos; Nature Seychelles; Polytechnic University of Marche; Polytechnic University of Marche; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Life and Environmental Sciences; Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples; The University of Alicante; Centro de Investigación Marina; The University of Alicante; Departamento Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada; Tunis El Manar University; Universitat de Barcelona; University of Malta; University of Rome La Sapienza
Publication Year 2023
OpenAccess true
Contact blue-cloud-support(at)maris.nl
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Discipline Marine Science
Spatial Coverage (-0.487W, 34.949S, 34.083E, 44.941N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z