Year: 2017
Type: data-paper
Abstract: A growing interest is devoted to global-scale approaches in ecology and evolution that examine patterns and determinants of species diversity and the threats resulting from global change. These analyses obviously require global datasets of species distribution. Freshwater systems house a disproportionately high fraction of the global fish diversity considering the small proportion of the earth's surface that they occupy, and are one of the most threatened habitats on Earth. Here we provide complete species lists for 3119 drainage basins covering more than 80% of the Earth surface using 14953 fish species inhabiting permanently or occasionally freshwater systems. The database results from an extensive survey of native and non-native freshwater fish species distribution based on 1436 published papers, books, grey literature and web-based sources. Alone or in combination with further datasets on species biological and ecological characteristics and their evolutionary history, this database represents a highly valuable source of information for further studies on freshwater macroecology, macroevolution, biogeography and conservation.
Source: Scientific Data
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Flanders Marine Institute, University of Antwerp, Station d’Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Montpellier, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Universidade de Brasília, Ifremer, Marine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,132
Awards: Approches quantitatives des extinctions passées, présentes et futures des poissons d'eau douce, G1935945911, G39567056, CEnter of the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia, G569531872, G638905164, G7240651115, G7376787254, G7658697405, Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Status, Trends, Pressures, and Conservation Priorities, Modèles prédictifs de la diversité spécifique et fonctionnelle des communautés de poissons d'eau douce : outils de réponse aux effets de l'anthropisation et du changement climatique annoncé
OpenAlex ID: W2758226460