A trait collection of marine fish species from North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific continental shelf seas

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This dataset containing traits of marine fish is based on fish taxa observed during international scientific bottom-trawl surveys regularly conducted in the Northeast Atlantic, Northwest Atlantic and the Northeast Pacific. These scientific surveys target primarily demersal (bottom-dwelling) fish species, but pelagic species are also regularly recorded. The overarching aim of this dataset was to collect information on ecological traits for as many fish taxa as possible and to find area-specific trait values in order to account for intraspecific variation in traits, especially for widely distributed species. We collected traits for species, genera and families. The majority of trait values were sourced from FishBase (Froese and Pauly, 2019), and have been supplemented with values from primary literature.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900866
Related Identifier https://www.fishbase.se/home.htm
Related Identifier https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Beukhof-etal_2019/SupplementaryInformationTraitCollection.pdf
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.900866
Provenance
Creator Beukhof, Esther ORCID logo; Dencker, Tim S; Palomares, M L D ORCID logo; Maureaud, Aurore ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size 1.3 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research