Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

C.G. Mullighan; N. Pacoureau; S.A. Pardo; L.S. Ruiz; E. García-Rodríguez; B. Finucci; M. Haack; A. Harry; A.B. Judah; W. VanderWright; J.S. Yin; H.K. Kindsvater; N.K. Dulvy

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Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

C.G. Mullighan, N. Pacoureau, S.A. Pardo, L.S. Ruiz, E. García-Rodríguez, B. Finucci, M. Haack, A. Harry, A.B. Judah, W. VanderWright, …

Scientific Data, Vol.9(1), Art. 559

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01655-1

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Abstract

A curated database of shark and ray biological data is increasingly necessary both to support fisheries management and conservation efforts, and to test the generality of hypotheses of vertebrate macroecology and macroevolution. Sharks and rays are one of the most charismatic, evolutionary distinct, and threatened lineages of vertebrates, comprising around 1,250 species. To accelerate shark and ray conservation and science, we developed Sharkipedia as a curated open-source database and research initiative to make all published biological traits and population trends accessible to everyone. Sharkipedia hosts information on 58 life history traits from 274 sources, for 170 species, from 39 families, and 12 orders related to length (n = 9 traits), age (8), growth (12), reproduction (19), demography (5), and allometric relationships (5), as well as 871 population time-series from 202 species. Sharkipedia relies on the backbone taxonomy of the IUCN Red List and the bibliography of Shark-References. Sharkipedia has profound potential to support the rapidly growing data demands of fisheries management, international trade regulation as well as anchoring vertebrate macroecology and macroevolution.

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Title: Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series
Authors/Creators: C.G. Mullighan (Author/Creator)
N. Pacoureau (Author/Creator) - Simon Fraser University
S.A. Pardo (Author/Creator) - Ecology Action
L.S. Ruiz (Author/Creator)
E. García-Rodríguez (Author/Creator) - Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
B. Finucci (Author/Creator) - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
M. Haack (Author/Creator) - 14-04 Singapore Business Federation Centre, 068914, Singapore, Singapore.
A. Harry (Author/Creator) - Government of Western Australia
A.B. Judah (Author/Creator) - Dalhousie University
W. VanderWright (Author/Creator) - Simon Fraser University
J.S. Yin (Author/Creator) - Simon Fraser University
H.K. Kindsvater (Author/Creator) - Virginia Tech
N.K. Dulvy (Author/Creator) - Simon Fraser University
Publication Details: Scientific Data, Vol.9(1), Art. 559
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Identifiers: 991005543278707891
Copyright: © 2022 The Authors.
Murdoch Affiliation: Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology; 3.2 Marine Biology; 3.2.92 Fisheries Ecology
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