Species richness, abundance and biomass data for assessing fish spillover from Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas

  1. Harmelin-Vivien, Mireille 1
  2. Le Diréach, Laurence 2
  3. Bayle-Sempere, Just 3
  4. Charbonnel, Eric 4
  5. García-Charton, José Antonio 5
  6. Ody, Denis 6
  7. Pérez-Ruzafa, Angel 5
  8. Reñones, Olga 7
  9. Sánchez-Jerez, Pablo 3
  10. Valle Perez, Carlos 3
  1. 1 Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) UM 110, F-13288, Marseille
  2. 2 GIS Posidonie, OSU Institut Pythéas, Aix-Marseille Université, Campus de Luminy, F-13288 Marseille
  3. 3 Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada, Edificio Ciencias V., Universidad de Alicante, POB 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
  4. 4 Parc Marin de la Côte Bleue, Observatoire, BP 42, 13620 Carry-le-Rouet, France
  5. 5 Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain
  6. 6 WWF-France, 6 rue des Fabres, 13001 Marseille, France
  7. 7 Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Apdo. 291, 07080 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Editor: SEANOE

Any de publicació: 2020

Tipus: Dataset

DOI: 10.17882/74396 lock_openAccés obert editor

Resum

This dataset gathers total species richness, total abundance and total biomass of fishes recorded in six Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas in summer by underwater visual censuses performed on rocky areas at varying distances from the core of the MPA. Belt transects (25 x 5 m) were run parallel to the coast between 6 and 12 m depth, except in Tabarca Posidonia beds (50 x 5 m). Additionally, reduced fish species richness, abundance and biomass excluding zooplanktivorous fish species (Atherinidae, Clupeidae, Centracanthidae, Engraulidae, Pomacentridae, and the Sparidae Boops boops) were given as their fluctuating abundance and aggregative behavior may mask the effect of protection. Location of the 6 Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas