Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

dc.contributor.authorMull, Christopher G.en
dc.contributor.authorPacoureau, Nathanen
dc.contributor.authorPardo, Sebastian A.en
dc.contributor.authorRuiz, Luz Saldanaen
dc.contributor.authorGarcia-Rodriguez, Emilianoen
dc.contributor.authorFinucci, Brittanyen
dc.contributor.authorHaack, Maxen
dc.contributor.authorHarry, Alastairen
dc.contributor.authorJudah, Aaron B.en
dc.contributor.authorVanderWright, Wadeen
dc.contributor.authorYin, Jamie S.en
dc.contributor.authorKindsvater, Holly K.en
dc.contributor.authorDulvy, Nicholas K.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-07T12:48:04Zen
dc.date.available2022-10-07T12:48:04Zen
dc.date.issued2022-09-10en
dc.description.abstractA curated database of shark and ray biological data is increasingly necessary both to support fisheries management and conservation efforts, and to test the generality of hypotheses of vertebrate macroecology and macroevolution. Sharks and rays are one of the most charismatic, evolutionary distinct, and threatened lineages of vertebrates, comprising around 1,250 species. To accelerate shark and ray conservation and science, we developed Sharkipedia as a curated open-source database and research initiative to make all published biological traits and population trends accessible to everyone. Sharkipedia hosts information on 58 life history traits from 274 sources, for 170 species, from 39 families, and 12 orders related to length (n = 9 traits), age (8), growth (12), reproduction (19), demography (5), and allometric relationships (5), as well as 871 population time-series from 202 species. Sharkipedia relies on the backbone taxonomy of the IUCN Red List and the bibliography of Shark-References. Sharkipedia has profound potential to support the rapidly growing data demands of fisheries management, international trade regulation as well as anchoring vertebrate macroecology and macroevolution.en
dc.description.notesWe thank H. Yan for additional data-mining of shark trends, C.L. Rigby for time-series checking, B. D'Alberto for traits data-mining, for M-J. Juan-Jorda for interpretation of stock assessments, and J. Pollerspock for assisting with relational references. CM acknowledges support from M.A. MacNeil. This work was supported by both a Small Project Grant to CGM and HKK and a Project Grant to NKD from the Shark Conservation Fund, a philanthropic collaborative that pools expertise and resources to meet the threats facing the world's sharks and rays. The Shark Conservation Fund is a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Further support was provided by a sponsorship from the Save Our Seas Foundation to CGM. Additional funding was provided by the US National Science Foundation grant DEB-1556779 to HKK, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech. NKD was supported by the Discovery and Accelerator grants from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council and the Canada Research Chair program.en
dc.description.sponsorshipShark Conservation Fund; Save Our Seas Foundation; US National Science Foundation [DEB-1556779]; Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council; Canada Research Chair programen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01655-1en
dc.identifier.eissn2052-4463en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.other559en
dc.identifier.pmid36088355en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/112098en
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherNature Portfolioen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectfishesen
dc.subjectworlden
dc.subjectstrategiesen
dc.subjectpatternsen
dc.titleSharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-seriesen
dc.title.serialScientific Dataen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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