Supporting data for 'Stabilizing selection on Atlantic cod supergenes through a millennium of extensive exploitation' ...

• Main Author: Sodeland, Marte
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2020
• Subjects: atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kj0; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kj0

Life on earth has been characterized by recurring cycles of ecological stasis and disruption, relating biological eras to geological and climatic transitions through the history of our planet. Due to the increasing degree of ecological abruption caused by human influences many advocate that we now have entered the geological era of the Anthropocene, or ‘the age of man’. Considering the ongoing mass extinction and ecosystem reshuffling observed worldwide, a better understanding of the drivers of ecological stasis will be a requisite for identifying routes of intervention and mitigation. Ecosystem stability may rely on one or a few keystone species, and the loss of such species could potentially have detrimental effects. The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) have historically been highly abundant and is considered a keystone species in ecosystems of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Collapses of cod stocks have been observed on both sides of the Atlantic and reported to have detrimental effects that include vast ...