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Meijer KJ, Gusmao JB, Bruil L, Franken O, Grimm IA, van der Heide T, Hijner N, Holthuijsen SJ, Hübner L, Thieltges DW, Olff H, Eriksson BK, Govers LL. The seafloor from a trait perspective. A comprehensive life history dataset of soft sediment macrozoobenthos. Sci Data 2023; 10:808. [PMID: 37978182 PMCID: PMC10656422 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02728-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Biological trait analysis (BTA) is a valuable tool for evaluating changes in community diversity and its link to ecosystem processes as well as environmental and anthropogenic perturbations. Trait-based analytical techniques like BTA rely on standardised datasets of species traits. However, there are currently only a limited number of datasets available for marine macrobenthos that contain trait data across multiple taxonomic groups. Here, we present an open-access dataset of 16 traits for 235 macrozoobenthic species recorded throughout multiple sampling campaigns of the Dutch Wadden Sea; a dynamic soft bottom system where humans have long played a substantial role in shaping the coastal environment. The trait categories included in this dataset cover a variety of life history strategies that are tightly linked to ecosystem functioning and the resilience of communities to (anthropogenic) perturbations and can advance our understanding of environmental changes and human impacts on the functioning of soft bottom systems.
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- Kasper J Meijer
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geoquímica: Petróleo e Meio Ambiente (POSPETRO) Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Bahia (IGEO, UFBA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500, Turku, Finland
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
- Rijkswaterstaat Noord Nederland, P.O. Box 2232, 3500 GE, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.
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Langeneck J, Fourreau CJL, Rousou M, Barbieri M, Maltagliati F, Musco L, Castelli A. Environmental features drive lineage diversification in the Aricidea assimilis species complex (Annelida, Paraonidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2138588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- J. Langeneck
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Science del Mare (CoNISMa), U.L.R. di Lecce, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Molecular Invertebrate Systematics and Ecology (MISE) Lab, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Fisheries and Marine Research (DFMR), Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Abstract
Annelida is a ubiquitous, common and diverse group of organisms, found in terrestrial, fresh waters and marine environments. Despite the large efforts put into resolving the evolutionary relationships of these and other Lophotrochozoa, and the delineation of the basal nodes within the group, these are still unanswered. Annelida holds an enormous diversity of forms and biological strategies alongside a large number of species, following Arthropoda, Mollusca, Vertebrata and perhaps Platyhelminthes, among the species most rich in phyla within Metazoa. The number of currently accepted annelid species changes rapidly when taxonomic groups are revised due to synonymies and descriptions of a new species. The group is also experiencing a recent increase in species numbers as a consequence of the use of molecular taxonomy methods, which allows the delineation of the entities within species complexes. This review aims at succinctly reviewing the state-of-the-art of annelid diversity and summarizing the main systematic revisions carried out in the group. Moreover, it should be considered as the introduction to the papers that form this Special Issue on Systematics and Biodiversity of Annelids.
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