FUN Azores: A trait database for the marine species of the ridges, seamounts, and hydrothermal vents of the Azores, NE Atlantic

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Trait-based approaches that complement taxonomic-based studies have increased in popularity among the scientific community over the last decades. The collection of biological and ecological characteristics of species (i.e., traits) provides insight into species and ecosystem vulnerability to environmental and anthropogenic changes, as well as ecosystem functioning. While most of the available trait databases to date contain essential information to understand the functional diversity of a taxonomic group or functional group based on size, the FUN Azores trait database has an ecosystem-based approach that provides a comprehensive assessment of diverse fauna (meio-, macro-, and megafauna) from benthic and pelagic environments in the Azores Marine Park; including ridges, seamounts, and hydrothermal vents. We used a collaborative approach involving 30 researchers with different expertise to develop the trait database; which contains compiled data on 14 traits representing morphological, behavioral, and life history characteristics for 1210 species, across 10 phyla.

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955357
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.955357
Provenance
Creator Campanyà-Llovet, Neus ORCID logo; Bates, Amanda E ORCID logo; Cuvelier, Daphne; Giacomello, Eva (ORCID: 0000-0003-0458-486X); Catarino, Diana ORCID logo; Gooday, Andrew J; Berning, Björn; Figuerola, Blanca; Malaquias, Manuel; Moura, Carlos J; Xavier, Joana R ORCID logo; Sutton, Tracey T; Fauconnet, Laurence ORCID logo; Ramalho, Sofia ORCID logo; Neves, Bárbara M; Menezes, Gui M ORCID logo; Horton, Tammy ORCID logo; Gebruk, Andrey V; Minin, K V (ORCID: 0000-0003-3900-612X); Bried, Joël; Molodtsova, Tina ORCID logo; Silva, Mónica A (ORCID: 0000-0002-2683-309X); Dilman, Anna; Kremenetskaia, Antonina ORCID logo; Costa, Eudriano ORCID logo; Clarke, Jameson; Martins, Helen R ORCID logo; Pham, Christopher Kim ORCID logo; Carreiro-Silva, Marina ORCID logo; Colaço, Ana ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference European Regional Development Fund https://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530 Crossref Funder ID Acores 01-0145-FEDER-000123 FunAzores
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/plain
Size 1.6 MBytes
Discipline Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-30.384 LON, 38.306 LAT); Azores
Temporal Coverage Begin 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-31T00:00:00Z