Data from: The role of a dominant predator in shaping biodiversity over space and time in a marine ecosystem
1. Exploitation of living marine resources has resulted in major changes to populations of targeted species and functional groups of large-bodied species in the ocean. However, the effects of overfishing and collapse of large top predators on the broad-scale biodiversity of oceanic ecosystems remain...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:5003509 2024-09-15T17:55:35+00:00 Data from: The role of a dominant predator in shaping biodiversity over space and time in a marine ecosystem Ellingsen, Kari Elsa Anderson, Marti J. Shackell, Nancy L. Tveraa, Torkild Yoccoz, Nigel G. Frank, Kenneth T. 2016-05-12 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76sv3 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12396 https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76sv3 oai:zenodo.org:5003509 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode path analysis top predator causal model collapse of cod relative abundance info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2016 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76sv310.1111/1365-2656.12396 2024-07-26T21:56:21Z 1. Exploitation of living marine resources has resulted in major changes to populations of targeted species and functional groups of large-bodied species in the ocean. However, the effects of overfishing and collapse of large top predators on the broad-scale biodiversity of oceanic ecosystems remain largely unexplored. 2. Populations of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were overfished and several collapsed in the early 1990s across Atlantic Canada, providing a unique opportunity to study potential ecosystem-level effects of the reduction of a dominant predator on fish biodiversity, and to identify how such effects might interact with other environmental factors, such as changes in climate, over time. 3. We combined causal modelling with model selection and multimodel inference to analyse 41 years of fishery-independent survey data (1970–2010) and quantify ecosystem-level effects of overfishing and climate variation on the biodiversity of fishes across a broad area (172 000 km2) of the Scotian Shelf. 4. We found that alpha and beta diversity increased with decreases in cod occurrence; fish communities were less homogeneous and more variable in systems where cod no longer dominated. These effects were most pronounced in the colder north-eastern parts of the Scotian Shelf. 5. Our results provide strong evidence that intensive harvesting (and collapse) of marine apex predators can have large impacts on biodiversity, with far-reaching consequences for ecological stability across an entire ecosystem. ELLINGSEN - Role of cod in shaping beta diversity Data consisted of all commercial and non-commercial fish species sampled by the DFO annual summer (July) research bottom trawl surveys of the Scotian Shelf, Northwest Atlantic over a period of 41 years (1970-2010). The data were extracted from the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) database. All analyses were done using R. ELLINGSEN - Role of cod in shaping beta-diversity.csv Other/Unknown Material atlantic cod Gadus morhua Northwest Atlantic Zenodo |
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1. Exploitation of living marine resources has resulted in major changes to populations of targeted species and functional groups of large-bodied species in the ocean. However, the effects of overfishing and collapse of large top predators on the broad-scale biodiversity of oceanic ecosystems remain largely unexplored. 2. Populations of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were overfished and several collapsed in the early 1990s across Atlantic Canada, providing a unique opportunity to study potential ecosystem-level effects of the reduction of a dominant predator on fish biodiversity, and to identify how such effects might interact with other environmental factors, such as changes in climate, over time. 3. We combined causal modelling with model selection and multimodel inference to analyse 41 years of fishery-independent survey data (1970–2010) and quantify ecosystem-level effects of overfishing and climate variation on the biodiversity of fishes across a broad area (172 000 km2) of the Scotian Shelf. 4. We found that alpha and beta diversity increased with decreases in cod occurrence; fish communities were less homogeneous and more variable in systems where cod no longer dominated. These effects were most pronounced in the colder north-eastern parts of the Scotian Shelf. 5. Our results provide strong evidence that intensive harvesting (and collapse) of marine apex predators can have large impacts on biodiversity, with far-reaching consequences for ecological stability across an entire ecosystem. ELLINGSEN - Role of cod in shaping beta diversity Data consisted of all commercial and non-commercial fish species sampled by the DFO annual summer (July) research bottom trawl surveys of the Scotian Shelf, Northwest Atlantic over a period of 41 years (1970-2010). The data were extracted from the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) database. All analyses were done using R. ELLINGSEN - Role of cod in shaping beta-diversity.csv |
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Ellingsen, Kari Elsa Anderson, Marti J. Shackell, Nancy L. Tveraa, Torkild Yoccoz, Nigel G. Frank, Kenneth T. |
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Ellingsen, Kari Elsa Anderson, Marti J. Shackell, Nancy L. Tveraa, Torkild Yoccoz, Nigel G. Frank, Kenneth T. |
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