ArticleNature communications2022
Global patterns in functional rarity of marine fish.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- From plankton to fish: 21st-century redistribution of marine biodiversity and the changing role of rare species.Science advances · 2026Article
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- Unraveling Fish Community Assembly Rules in Coastal China Seas Based on Hierarchical Modeling of Species Communities.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- CLIB: Contrastive learning of ignoring background for underwater fish image classification.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2024Article
- Functional diversity of sharks and rays is highly vulnerable and supported by unique species and locations worldwide.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Ultra-sensitive detection of ecologically rare fish from eDNA samples based on the RPA-CRISPR/Cas12a technology.iScience · 2023Article
- Temporal change in functional rarity in marine fish assemblages.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Functional rarity of plants in German hay meadows - Patterns on the species level and mismatches with community species richness.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Global patterns in functional rarity of marine fish.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Rare species, which represent a large fraction of the taxa in ecological assemblages, account for much of the biological diversity on Earth. These species make substantial contributions to ecosystem functioning, and are targets of conservation policy. Here we adopt an integrated approach, combining information on the rarity of species trait combinations, and their spatial restrictedness, to quantify the biogeography of rare fish (a taxon with almost 13,000 species) in the world's oceans. We find concentrations of rarity, in excess of what is predicted by a null expectation, near the coasts and at higher latitudes. We also observe mismatches between these rarity hotspots and marine protected areas. This pattern is repeated for both major groupings of fish, the Actinopterygii (bony fish) and Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays). These results uncover global patterns of rarity that were not apparent from earlier work, and highlight the importance of using metrics that incorporate information on functional traits in the conservation and management of global marine fishes.
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