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Maureaud AA, Palacios-Abrantes J, Kitchel Z, Mannocci L, Pinsky ML, Fredston A, Beukhof E, Forrest DL, Frelat R, Palomares MLD, Pecuchet L, Thorson JT, van Denderen PD, Mérigot B. FISHGLOB_data: an integrated dataset of fish biodiversity sampled with scientific bottom-trawl surveys. Sci Data 2024; 11:24. [PMID: 38177193 PMCID: PMC10766603 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02866-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
Abstract
Scientific bottom-trawl surveys are ecological observation programs conducted along continental shelves and slopes of seas and oceans that sample marine communities associated with the seafloor. These surveys report taxa occurrence, abundance and/or weight in space and time, and contribute to fisheries management as well as population and biodiversity research. Bottom-trawl surveys are conducted all over the world and represent a unique opportunity to understand ocean biogeography, macroecology, and global change. However, combining these data together for cross-ecosystem analyses remains challenging. Here, we present an integrated dataset of 29 publicly available bottom-trawl surveys conducted in national waters of 18 countries that are standardized and pre-processed, covering a total of 2,170 sampled fish taxa and 216,548 hauls collected from 1963 to 2021. We describe the processing steps to create the dataset, flags, and standardization methods that we developed to assist users in conducting spatio-temporal analyses with stable regional survey footprints. The aim of this dataset is to support research, marine conservation, and management in the context of global change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aurore A Maureaud
- Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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- Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- FRB-CESAB, Montpellier, France
- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER, Sète, France
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA), Seattle, WA, USA
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- National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, 02882, USA
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Gordó-Vilaseca C, Pecuchet L, Coll M, Reiss H, Jüterbock A, Costello MJ. Over 20% of marine fishes shifting in the North and Barents Seas, but not in the Norwegian Sea. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15801. [PMID: 37667749 PMCID: PMC10475276 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Climate warming generally induces poleward range expansions and equatorward range contractions of species' environmental niches on a global scale. Here, we examined the direction and magnitude of species biomass centroid geographic shifts in relation to temperature and depth for 83 fish species in 9,522 standardised research trawls from the North Sea (1998-2020) to the Norwegian (2000-2020) and Barents Sea (2004-2020). We detected an overall significant northward shift of the marine fish community biomass in the North Sea, and individual species northward shifts in the Barents and North Seas, in 20% and 25% of the species' biomass centroids in each respective region. We did not detect overall community shifts in the Norwegian Sea, where two species (8%) shifted in each direction (northwards and southwards). Among 9 biological traits, species biogeographic assignation, preferred temperature, age at maturity and maximum depth were significant explanatory variables for species latitudinal shifts in some of the study areas, and Arctic species shifted significantly faster than boreal species in the Barents Sea. Overall, our results suggest a strong influence of other factors, such as biological interactions, in determining several species' recent geographic shifts.
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- The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) & Ecopath International Initiative (EII), Barcelona, Spain
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway
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Emblemsvåg M, Pecuchet L, Velle LG, Nogueira A, Primicerio R. Recent warming causes functional borealization and diversity loss in deep fish communities east of Greenland. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Pecuchet L, Jørgensen LL, Dolgov AV, Eriksen E, Husson B, Skern‐Mauritzen M, Primicerio R. Spatio‐temporal turnover and drivers of bentho‐demersal community and food web structure in a high‐latitude marine ecosystem. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- Polar Branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO named after N.M.Knipovich) Murmansk Russia
- Murmansk State Technical University Murmansk Russia
- Tomsk State University Tomsk Russia
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Kortsch S, Frelat R, Pecuchet L, Olivier P, Putnis I, Bonsdorff E, Ojaveer H, Jurgensone I, Strāķe S, Rubene G, Krūze Ē, Nordström MC. Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning. J Anim Ecol 2021; 90:1205-1216. [PMID: 33608888 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Studying how food web structure and function vary through time represents an opportunity to better comprehend and anticipate ecosystem changes. Yet, temporal studies of highly resolved food web structure are scarce. With few exceptions, most temporal food web studies are either too simplified, preventing a detailed assessment of structural properties or binary, missing the temporal dynamics of energy fluxes among species. Using long-term, multi-trophic biomass data coupled with highly resolved information on species feeding relationships, we analysed food web dynamics in the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) over more than three decades (1981-2014). We combined unweighted (topology-based) and weighted (biomass- and flux-based) food web approaches, first, to unravel how distinct descriptors can highlight differences (or similarities) in food web dynamics through time, and second, to compare temporal dynamics of food web structure and function. We find that food web descriptors vary substantially and distinctively through time, likely reflecting different underlying ecosystem processes. While node- and link-weighted metrics reflect changes related to alterations in species dominance and fluxes, unweighted metrics are more sensitive to changes in species and link richness. Comparing unweighted, topology-based metrics and flux-based functions further indicates that temporal changes in functions cannot be predicted using unweighted food web structure. Rather, information on species population dynamics and weighted, flux-based networks should be included to better comprehend temporal food web dynamics. By integrating unweighted, node- and link-weighted metrics, we here demonstrate how different approaches can be used to compare food web structure and function, and identify complementary patterns of change in temporal food web dynamics, which enables a more complete understanding of the ecological processes at play in ecosystems undergoing change.
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- Susanne Kortsch
- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.,UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Tromsø, Norway
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIOR, Riga, Latvia
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Pärnu, Estonia.,National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIOR, Riga, Latvia
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- Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIOR, Riga, Latvia
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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Pecuchet L, Blanchet MA, Frainer A, Husson B, Jørgensen LL, Kortsch S, Primicerio R. Novel feeding interactions amplify the impact of species redistribution on an Arctic food web. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:4894-4906. [PMID: 32479687 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Species are redistributing globally in response to climate warming, impacting ecosystem functions and services. In the Barents Sea, poleward expansion of boreal species and a decreased abundance of Arctic species are causing a rapid borealization of the Arctic communities. This borealization might have profound consequences on the Arctic food web by creating novel feeding interactions between previously non co-occurring species. An early identification of new feeding links is crucial to predict their ecological impact. However, detection by traditional approaches, including stomach content and isotope analyses, although fundamental, cannot cope with the speed of change observed in the region, nor with the urgency of understanding the consequences of species redistribution for the marine ecosystem. In this study, we used an extensive food web (metaweb) with nearly 2,500 documented feeding links between 239 taxa coupled with a trait data set to predict novel feeding interactions and to quantify their potential impact on Arctic food web structure. We found that feeding interactions are largely determined by the body size of interacting species, although species foraging habitat and metabolic type are also important predictors. Further, we found that all boreal species will have at least one potential resource in the Arctic region should they redistribute therein. During 2014-2017, 11 boreal species were observed in the Arctic region of the Barents Sea. These incoming species, which are all generalists, change the structural properties of the Arctic food web by increasing connectance and decreasing modularity. In addition, these boreal species are predicted to initiate novel feeding interactions with the Arctic residents, which might amplify their impact on Arctic food web structure affecting ecosystem functioning and vulnerability. Under the ongoing species redistribution caused by environmental change, we propose merging a trait-based approach with ecological network analysis to efficiently predict the impacts of range-shifting species on food webs.
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- Laurene Pecuchet
- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Törnroos A, Pecuchet L, Olsson J, Gårdmark A, Blomqvist M, Lindegren M, Bonsdorff E. Four decades of functional community change reveals gradual trends and low interlinkage across trophic groups in a large marine ecosystem. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:1235-1246. [PMID: 30570820 PMCID: PMC6850384 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The rate at which biological diversity is altered on both land and in the sea, makes temporal community development a critical and fundamental part of understanding global change. With advancements in trait-based approaches, the focus on the impact of temporal change has shifted towards its potential effects on the functioning of the ecosystems. Our mechanistic understanding of and ability to predict community change is still impeded by the lack of knowledge in long-term functional dynamics that span several trophic levels. To address this, we assessed species richness and multiple dimensions of functional diversity and dynamics of two interacting key organism groups in the marine food web: fish and zoobenthos. We utilized unique time series-data spanning four decades, from three environmentally distinct coastal areas in the Baltic Sea, and assembled trait information on six traits per organism group covering aspects of feeding, living habit, reproduction and life history. We identified gradual long-term trends, rather than abrupt changes in functional diversity (trait richness, evenness, dispersion) trait turnover, and overall multi-trait community composition. The linkage between fish and zoobenthic functional community change, in terms of correlation in long-term trends, was weak, with timing of changes being area and trophic group specific. Developments of fish and zoobenthos traits, particularly size (increase in small size for both groups) and feeding habits (e.g. increase in generalist feeding for fish and scavenging or predation for zoobenthos), suggest changes in trophic pathways. We summarize our findings by highlighting three key aspects for understanding functional change across trophic groups: (a) decoupling of species from trait richness, (b) decoupling of richness from density and (c) determining of turnover and multi-trait dynamics. We therefore argue for quantifying change in multiple functional measures to help assessments of biodiversity change move beyond taxonomy and single trophic groups.
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- Anna Törnroos
- Environmental and Marine BiologyÅbo Akademi UniversityTurkuFinland
- Centre for Ocean Life, DTU‐AquaKngs. LyngbyDenmark
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- Environmental and Marine BiologyÅbo Akademi UniversityTurkuFinland
- Centre for Ocean Life, DTU‐AquaKngs. LyngbyDenmark
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- Department of Aquatic ResourcesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesÖregrundSweden
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- Department of Aquatic ResourcesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesÖregrundSweden
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- Environmental and Marine BiologyÅbo Akademi UniversityTurkuFinland
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Pecuchet L, Reygondeau G, Cheung WWL, Licandro P, van Denderen PD, Payne MR, Lindegren M. Spatial distribution of life-history traits and their response to environmental gradients across multiple marine taxa. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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- Laurene Pecuchet
- Centre for Ocean Life; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua); Technical University of Denmark; Kemitorvet, 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark
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- Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; The University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia V6 T 1Z4 Canada
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- Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; The University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia V6 T 1Z4 Canada
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- The Laboratory; Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science; Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB UK
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Prospect Place, The Hoe Plymouth PL1 3DH UK
- Stazione Zoologica ‘Anton Dohrn,’ Villa Comunale; 80121 Napoli NA Italy
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- Centre for Ocean Life; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua); Technical University of Denmark; Kemitorvet, 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua); Technical University of Denmark; Kemitorvet, 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua); Technical University of Denmark; Kemitorvet, 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark
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Dencker TS, Pecuchet L, Beukhof E, Richardson K, Payne MR, Lindegren M. Temporal and spatial differences between taxonomic and trait biodiversity in a large marine ecosystem: Causes and consequences. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0189731. [PMID: 29253876 PMCID: PMC5734758 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Biodiversity is a multifaceted concept, yet most biodiversity studies have taken a taxonomic approach, implying that all species are equally important. However, species do not contribute equally to ecosystem processes and differ markedly in their responses to changing environments. This recognition has led to the exploration of other components of biodiversity, notably the diversity of ecologically important traits. Recent studies taking into account both taxonomic and trait diversity have revealed that the two biodiversity components may exhibit pronounced temporal and spatial differences. These apparent incongruences indicate that the two components may respond differently to environmental drivers and that changes in one component might not affect the other. Such incongruences may provide insight into the structuring of communities through community assembly processes, and the resilience of ecosystems to change. Here we examine temporal and spatial patterns and drivers of multiple marine biodiversity indicators using the North Sea fish community as a case study. Based on long-term spatially resolved survey data on fish species occurrences and biomasses from 1983 to 2014 and an extensive trait dataset we: (i) investigate temporal and spatial incongruences between taxonomy and trait-based indicators of both richness and evenness; (ii) examine the underlying environmental drivers and, (iii) interpret the results in the context of assembly rules acting on community composition. Our study shows that taxonomy and trait-based biodiversity indicators differ in time and space and that these differences are correlated to natural and anthropogenic drivers, notably temperature, depth and substrate richness. Our findings show that trait-based biodiversity indicators add information regarding community composition and ecosystem structure compared to and in conjunction with taxonomy-based indicators. These results emphasize the importance of examining and monitoring multiple indicators of biodiversity in ecological studies as well as for conservation and ecosystem-based management purposes.
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- Tim Spaanheden Dencker
- Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Danish Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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