Sizing Ocean Giants

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Описание

What are the greatest sizes that the largest marine megafauna obtain? This is a simple question with a difficult and complex answer. Many of the largest-sized species occur in the world’s oceans. For many of these, rarity, remoteness, and quite simply the logistics of measuring these giants has made obtaining accurate size measurements difficult. Inaccurate reports of maximum sizes run rampant through the scientific literature and popular media. Moreover, how intraspecific variation in the body sizes of these animals relates to sex, population structure, the environment, and interactions with humans remains underappreciated. Here, we review and analyze body size for 25 ocean giants ranging across the animal kingdom. For each taxon we document body size for the largest known marine species of several clades. We also analyze intraspecific variation and identify the largest known individuals for each species. Where data allows, we analyze spatial and temporal intraspecific size variation. We also provide allometric scaling equations between different size measurements as resources to other researchers. In some cases, the lack of data prevents us from fully examining these topics and instead we specifically highlight these deficiencies and the barriers that exist for data collection. Overall, we found considerable variability in intraspecific size distributions from strongly left- to strongly right-skewed. We provide several allometric equations that allow for estimation of total lengths and weights from more easily obtained measurements. In several cases, we also quantify considerable geographic variation and decreases in size likely attributed to humans.

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Исследователи должны дать ссылку на эту работу следующим образом:

McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Data from: Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 4563 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=sizinggiants released on February 1, 2017.

Права

Исследователи должны соблюдать следующие права:

Публикующей организацией и владельцем прав на данную работу является Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

Регистрация в GBIF

Этот ресурс был зарегистрирован в GBIF, ему был присвоен следующий UUID: 833a0adc-c1f0-45a2-9970-8cf9bf171d30. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node отвечает за публикацию этого ресурса, и зарегистрирован в GBIF как издатель данных при оподдержке Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Ключевые слова

Occurrence; Observation

Контакты

Craig McClain

Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Principal Investigator

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

Kevin Mackay

Metadata Provider

Marine Database Manager

NIWA

Private Bag 14-901

6241 Kilbirnie

Wellington

http://www.niwa.co.nz

Meghan A. Balk

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Albuquerque

New Mexico

Mark C. Benfield

Author

Co-author

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge

Louisiana

Trevor A. Branch

Author

Co-author

School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

Seattle

Washington

Catherine Chen

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

James Cosgrove

Author

Co-author

Natural History Section, Royal British Columbia Museum

Victoria

British Columbia

Alistair D. M. Dove

Author

Co-author

Georgia Aquarium

Atlanta

Georgia

Leo Gaskins

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

Rebecca R. Helm

Author

Co-author

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

Providence

Rhode Island

Frederick G. Hochberg

Author

Co-author

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Santa Barbara

California

Frank B. Lee

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

Andrea Marshall

Author

Co-author

Marine Megafauna Foundation

Truckee

California

Steven E. McMurray

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Wilmington

North Carolina

Caroline Schanche

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

Shane N. Stone

Author

Co-author

Department of Biology, Duke University

Durham

North Carolina

Andrew D. Thaler

Author

Co-author

Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental Advisors

Vallejo

California

Географический охват

Global extent

Ограничивающие координаты	Юг Запад [-61,93, -178,33], Север Восток [60,9, 178,022]

Таксономический охват

Описание отсутсвует

Species	Architeuthis dux, Enteroctopus dofleini, Cetorhinus maximus, Dermochelys coriacea, Bathynomus giganteus, Mola mola

Библиографические ссылки

McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Peer J 3: e715. doi:10.5061/dryad.411mv
McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Data from: Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.411mv

Дополнительные метаданные

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Альтернативные идентификаторы	833a0adc-c1f0-45a2-9970-8cf9bf171d30
	https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=sizinggiants