Gulf of Alaska Portfolio Effects: Groundfish Functional Diversity Traits

• Main Authors: Colette Ward, Rachael Blake
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: Alaska; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Exxon Valdez; benthic foragers; fish apex predators; functional trait; groundfish; motile epifauna; oil spill; pelagic foragers; Anoplopoma fimbria; Atheresthes stomias; Bathymaster signatus; Bathyraja aleutica; Bathyraja interrupta; Berryteuthis magister; Chionoecetes bairdi; Clupea pallasii; Dasycottus setiger; Gadus macrocephalus; Glyptocephalus zachirus; Hemilepidotus jordani; Hemitripterus bolini; Hexagrammos decagrammus; Hippoglossoides elassodon; Hippoglossus stenolepis; Hyas lyratus; Hydrolagus colliei; Isopsetta isolepis; Limanda aspera; Lycodes brevipes; Lycodes palearis; Lyposetta exilis; Malacocottus zonurus; Mallotus villosus; Merluccius productus; Microstomus pacificus; Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus; Oncorhynchus elongatus; Oncorhynchus keta; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Parophrys vetulus; Platichthys stellatus; Pleurogrammus monopterygius; Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus; Podothecus accipenserinus; Raja binoculata; Raja pectoralis; Raja rhina; Sebastes alutus; Sebastes babcocki; Sebastes borealis; Sebastes brevispinis; Sebastes helvomaculatus; Sebastes polyspinis; Sebastes proriger; Sebastes variegatus; Sebastes zacentrus; Sebastolobus alascanus; Squalus acanthias; Thaleichthys pacificus; Theragra chalcogramma; Zaprora silenus; fimbria; stomias; signatus; aleutica; interrupta; magister; bairdi; pallasii; setiger; macrocephalus; zachirus; jordani; bolini; decagrammus; elassodon; stenolepis; lyratus; colliei; isolepis; aspera; brevipes; palearis; exilis; zonurus; villosus; productus; pacificus; polyacanthocephalus; elongatus; keta; tshawytscha; vetulus; stellatus; monopterygius; quadrituberculatus; accipenserinus; binoculata; pectoralis; rhina; alutus; babcocki; borealis; brevispinis; helvomaculatus; polyspinis; proriger; variegatus; zacentrus; alascanus; acanthias; chalcogramma; silenus; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Keta
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5072/FK2WM1BX1P

This data package consists of functional trait data for the 53 groundfish species most commonly encountered in National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA ASFC) bottom trawls from 1984-2015. These data are used in the analysis of functional diversity in a forthcoming manuscript. This work was conducted by the Groundfish sub-group of the Gulf of Alaska Portfolio Effects working group. The working group's goal is to assess how diversity may have buffered against the effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill as well as other perturbations.