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Biological and ecological traits of marine species.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A roadmap to define and select aquatic biological traits at different scales of analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
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- An ecological trait matrix of Neotropical freshwater fishes.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Life History Strategies Drive Meso-Scale Distribution Patterns in Coastal Benthic Macroinvertebrates.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Identifying marine invasion threats and management priorities through introduction pathway analysis in a remote sub-Antarctic ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Exceptional endemicity of Aotearoa New Zealand biota shows how taxa dispersal traits, but not phylogeny, correlate with global species richness.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2024Article
- Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery.Scientific data · 2023Article
- The seafloor from a trait perspective. A comprehensive life history dataset of soft sediment macrozoobenthos.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Environmental filtering and biotic interactions act on different facets of the diversity of benthic assemblages associated with eelgrass.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- NZTD - The New Zealand Trait Database for shallow-water marine benthic invertebrates.Scientific data · 2023Article
- The Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA) - Computational Traits for the Life Sciences.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Understanding the relative roles of local environmental, geo-climatic and spatial factors for taxonomic, functional and phylogeneticEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- The evolution of marine dwelling in Diptera.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Linking dimensions of data on global marine animal diversity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Establishing the South Australian Macrobenthic Traits (SAMT) database: A trait classification for functional assessments.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Testing marine regional-scale hypotheses along the Yucatan continental shelf using soft-bottom macrofauna.PeerJ · 2020Article
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Abstract
This paper reviews the utility and availability of biological and ecological traits for marine species so as to prioritise the development of a world database on marine species traits. In addition, the 'status' of species for conservation, that is, whether they are introduced or invasive, of fishery or aquaculture interest, harmful, or used as an ecological indicator, were reviewed because these attributes are of particular interest to society. Whereas traits are an enduring characteristic of a species and/or population, a species status may vary geographically and over time. Criteria for selecting traits were that they could be applied to most taxa, were easily available, and their inclusion would result in new research and/or management applications. Numerical traits were favoured over categorical. Habitat was excluded as it can be derived from a selection of these traits. Ten traits were prioritized for inclusion in the most comprehensive open access database on marine species (World Register of Marine Species), namely taxonomic classification, environment, geography, depth, substratum, mobility, skeleton, diet, body size and reproduction. These traits and statuses are being added to the database and new use cases may further subdivide and expand upon them.
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