Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas

Frontiers in Marine Science

Marine Science

Francesc Ordines¹  Paula Sánchez-Zulueta¹  David Grémillet²  Donna Dimarchopoulou³  Liesa Celie⁴  Marco Scotti⁵  Maria Lourdes D. Palomares⁶  Georgi Dakalov⁷  Stefania Klayn⁷  Gideon Gal⁸  Eva Daskalaki⁹  Athanassios C. Tsikliras⁹  Charlotte Lambert^1,10  Giuseppe Scarcella^1,11  Carmen Ferrà^1,12  Gianpaolo Coro^1,13  Emily C. Capuli^1,14  Rodolfo B. Reyes^1,14  Patricia Sorongon-Yap^1,14  Kathleen Kesner-Reyes^1,14  Luisa R. Abucay^1,14 

[1] Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears (COB-IEO), CSIC, Palma, Spain;Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Univ Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France;FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Science and Technology (DST)/National Research Foundation (NRF) Excellence Centre at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States;Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Oostende, Belgium;GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany;Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, National Research Council of Italy, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Sea Around Us, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria;Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Migdal, Israel;Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Littoral ENvironnement et Société UMR 7266 CNRS-La Rochelle Université, La Rochelle, France;National Research Council - Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies, Ancona, Italy;National Research Council - Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies, Ancona, Italy;Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;National Research Council - Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo”, Pisa, Italy;Quantitative Aquatics, Los Banos, Philippines;

关键词: data gaps;    marine biodiversity;    marine mammals;    seabirds;    marine reptiles;    marine invertebrates;    SeaLifeBase;    European waters;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmars.2023.1198137

 received in 2023-03-31, accepted in 2023-09-15,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Available information and potential data gaps for non-fish marine organisms (cnidarians, crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs, sponges, mammals, reptiles, and seabirds) covered by the global database SeaLifeBase were reviewed for eight marine ecosystems (Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Biscay/Celtic Sea/Iberian Coast, Black Sea, North Sea, western Mediterranean Sea, Levantine Sea) across European Seas. The review of the SeaLifeBase dataset, which is based on published literature, analyzed information coverage for eight biological characteristics (diet, fecundity, maturity, length-weight relationships, spawning, growth, lifespan, and natural mortality). These characteristics are required for the development of ecosystem and ecological models to evaluate the status of marine resources and related fisheries. Our analyses revealed that information regarding these biological characteristics in the literature was far from complete across all studied areas. The level of available information was nonetheless reasonably good for sea turtles and moderate for marine mammals in some areas (Baltic Sea, Bay of Biscay/Celtic Sea/Iberian Coast, Black Sea, North Sea and western Mediterranean Sea). Further, seven of the areas have well-studied species in terms of information coverage for biological characteristics of some commercial species whereas threatened species are generally not well studied. Across areas, the most well-studied species are the cephalopod common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and the crustacean Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). Overall, the information gap is narrowest for length-weight relationships followed by growth and maturity, and widest for fecundity and natural mortality. Based on these insights, we provide recommendations to prioritize species with insufficient or missing biological data that are common across the studied marine ecosystems and to address data deficiencies.

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Copyright © 2023 Abucay, Sorongon-Yap, Kesner-Reyes, Capuli, Reyes, Daskalaki, Ferrà, Scarcella, Coro, Ordines, Sánchez-Zulueta, Dakalov, Klayn, Celie, Scotti, Grémillet, Lambert, Gal, Palomares, Dimarchopoulou and Tsikliras