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3D habitat suitability maps of the 30 main commercial fish species from the Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Valle, M.; Ramirez-Romero, E.; Ibaibarriaga, L.; Citores, L.; Fernandes-Salvador, J. A.; Chust, G.; AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Spain; Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN) - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain; (2024): 3D habitat suitability maps of the 30 main commercial fish species from the Atlantic region. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8057
Contact: Valle, Mireia

Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

3-D habitat suitability maps (HSM) or probability of occurrence maps, built using Shape-Constrained Generalized Additive Models (SC-GAMs) for the 30 main commercial species of the Atlantic region.

Predictor variables for each species were selected from: sea water temperature, salinity, nitrate, net primary productivity, distance to seafloor, distance to coast, and relative position to mixed layer depth. Each species HSM contains 47 maps, one per depth level from 0 to 1000 m. Probability values of each map range from 0 (unsuitable habitat) to 1 (optimal habitat). For depth levels below the 0.99 quantile of the depth values found on the species occurrence data, NA values were assigned. Maps have been masked to species native range regions. See Valle et al. (2024) in Ecological Modelling 490:110632 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110632), for more details.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish, Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, 3d modelling, Biota, Data not evaluated, Ecological niches, Metadata conformant, NetCDF (Network Common Data Form), No limitations to public access, Species distribution, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), A, Atlantic, Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758, Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758), Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758, Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758), Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758, Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758), Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, 1758, Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776), Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758), Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758), Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758), Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827), Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758), Pisces, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758), Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758, Pollachius virens (Linnaeus, 1758), Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792), Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758, Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951, Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758), Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758), Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788), Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788), Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839), Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758), Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758), Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758, Trisopterus esmarkii (Nilsson, 1855), Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758, Zeus faber Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage
A, Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 January 1981 - 31 December 2010

Taxonomic coverage
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776) [WoRMS]
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827) [WoRMS]
Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Pisces [WoRMS]
Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Pollachius virens (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792) [WoRMS]
Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951 [WoRMS]
Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) [WoRMS]
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) [WoRMS]
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) [WoRMS]
Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Trisopterus esmarkii (Nilsson, 1855) [WoRMS]
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Zeus faber Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Contributors
AZTI, Marine Research; Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) (AZTI), moredata creator
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalusia (ICMAN), moredata creator

Related datasets
Other relation:
Potential catch biomass summed up along the water column for the 30 main commercial fish species from the Atlantic Ocean, more

Project
Mission Atlantic, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Valle, M. et al. (2024). Pan-Atlantic 3D distribution model incorporating water column for commercial fish. Ecol. Model. 490: 110632. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110632, more

Data type: Data products
Metadatarecord created: 2022-04-26
Information last updated: 2024-03-15
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