FishMed: traits, phylogeny, current and projected species distribution of Mediterranean fishes, and environmental data

Type Article
Date 2015-08
Language English
Author(s) Albouy CamilleORCID1, 2, Lasram Frida Ben Rais3, Velez Laure2, Guilhaumon François2, Meynard Christine N.4, Boyer Séverine5, Benestan Laura6, Mouquet Nicolas7, Douzery Emmanuel7, Aznar Roland8, Troussellier Marc2, Somot Samuel9, Leprieur Fabien2, Le Loc'h François10, Mouillot David2, 11
Affiliation(s) 1 : De´partement de biologie, chimie et ge´ographie, Universite´ du Que´bec a` Rimouski, 300 Alle´e des Ursulines, Que´bec G5L 3A1 Canada
2 : UMR 9190 MARBEC (CNRS-IFREMER-IRD-UM), Universite´ de Montpellier, Place Euge`ne Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
3 : Laboratoire Ecosyste`mes et Ressources Aquatiques UR13AGRO1, Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie, 43 avenue Charles Nicolle, 1082 Tunis, Tunisie
4 : Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062 USA
5 : Peˆches et Oce´ans Canada, Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, 850 Route de la Mer, CP 1000, Mont-Joli, Que´bec G5H 3Z4 Canada
6 : Institut de Biologie Inte´grative et des Syste`mes, Universite´ Laval, Pavillon Charles-Euge`ne-Marchand, 1030 Avenue de la Me´decine, Que´bec G1V 0A6 Canada
7 : Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, UMR CNRS-IRD-UM2 5554, Universite´ Montpellier 2, Place Euge`ne Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
8 : ´ rea de Medio Fý´sico, Organismo Pu´blico Puertos del Estado, Madrid, Spain
9 : Centre National de Recherches Me´te´orologiques, CNRM-GAME, Me´te´o-France, CNRS Toulouse, France
10 : UMR 6539 Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement Marin, CNRS-UBO-IRD-IFREMER, Institut Universitaire Europe´en de le Mer, Place Nicolas Copernic, Pointe du Diable, Technopole Brest-Iroise, 29280 Plouzane´, France
11 : Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
Source Ecology (0012-9658) (Wiley-Blackwell), 2015-08 , Vol. 96 , N. 8 , P. 2312-2313
DOI 10.1890/14-2279.1
Keyword(s) climate change, coastal fishes, functional diversity, Mediterranean fish species, Mediterranean Sea, NEMOMED8, phylogenetic diversity, species distribution models, taxonomic diversity
Abstract The FishMed database provides traits, phylogeny, current and projected species distribution of Mediterranean fishes, and associated sea surface temperature (SST) from the regional oceanic model NEMOMED8. Data for the current geographical distributions of 635 Mediterranean fish species were compiled from a published expert knowledge atlas of fishes of the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean (FNAM) edited between 1984 and 1986 and from an updated exotic fish species list. Two future sets of projected species distributions were obtained for the middle and end of the 21st century by using an ensemble forecasting approach for 288 coastal Mediterranean fish species based on SST according to the IPPC/SRES A2 scenario implemented with the Mediterranean climatic model NEMOMED8. The functional part of the database encompasses 12 biological and ecological traits (maximal and common lengths, vertical distribution, habitat, migration type, mode of reproduction, sex shift, semelparity, diet type (larvae and adults), social behavior, species origin, and depth) for the 635 fish species. To build the phylogeny we inferred the timing and geographic origins of Mediterranean teleost species diversity using nucleotide sequences collected from GenBank including 62% of Mediterranean teleost species plus nine outgroups. Maximum likelihood Bayesian phylogenetic and dating analyses were calibrated using 20 fossil species. An additional 124 fish species were grafted onto the chronogram according to their taxonomic affinity to obtain a phylogenetic tree including 498 species. Finally we also present the associated SST data for the observed period (1961–1980) and for the middle (2040–2059) and the end of the 21st century (2080–2099) obtained from NEMOMED8 according to the IPCC A2 scenario. The FishMed database might be of interest in the context of global anthropogenic changes as coastal Mediterranean ecosystems are currently recognized as one of the most impacted ecosystems on earth.
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Albouy Camille, Lasram Frida Ben Rais, Velez Laure, Guilhaumon François, Meynard Christine N., Boyer Séverine, Benestan Laura, Mouquet Nicolas, Douzery Emmanuel, Aznar Roland, Troussellier Marc, Somot Samuel, Leprieur Fabien, Le Loc'h François, Mouillot David (2015). FishMed: traits, phylogeny, current and projected species distribution of Mediterranean fishes, and environmental data. Ecology, 96(8), 2312-2313. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1890/14-2279.1 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00371/48216/