National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Division of Oceanography, ECHO Group, Trieste, Italy.
Italian National Institute of Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Chioggia, Italy.
Sci Data. 2017 Sep 12;4:170104. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.104.
Historic data on biodiversity provide the context for present observations and allow studying long-term changes in marine populations. Here we present multiple datasets on fish and fisheries of the Adriatic Sea covering the last two centuries encompassing from qualitative observations to standardised scientific monitoring. The datasets consist of three groups: (1) early naturalists' descriptions of fish fauna, including information (e.g., presence, perceived abundance, size) on 255 fish species for the period 1818-1936; (2) historical landings from major Northern Adriatic fish markets (Venice, Trieste, Rijeka) for the period 1902-1968, Italian official landings for the Northern and Central Adriatic (1953-2012) and landings from the Lagoon of Venice (1945-2001); (3) trawl-survey data from seven surveys spanning the period 1948-1991 and including Catch per Unit of Effort data (kgh and/or nh) for 956 hauls performed at 301 stations. The integration of these datasets has already demonstrated to be useful to analyse historical marine community changes over time, and its availability through open-source data portal will facilitate analyses in the framework of marine historical ecology.
历史生物多样性数据为当前的观察结果提供了背景，并允许研究海洋种群的长期变化。在这里，我们提供了多个关于亚得里亚海鱼类和渔业的数据集，涵盖了过去两个世纪的情况，包括从定性观察到标准化科学监测的各种数据。这些数据集由三组组成：（1）1818 年至 1936 年期间，早期自然学家对鱼类区系的描述，包括 255 种鱼类的信息（如存在、感知丰度、大小）；（2）1902 年至 1968 年期间，来自亚得里亚海北部主要鱼类市场（威尼斯、的里雅斯特、里耶卡）的历史捕捞量、意大利北部和中部的官方捕捞量（1953 年至 2012 年）以及威尼斯泻湖的捕捞量（1945 年至 2001 年）；（3）1948 年至 1991 年期间进行的七次拖网调查的数据，包括在 301 个站点进行的 956 次拖网作业的单位捕捞努力量数据（kgh 和/或 nh）。这些数据集的整合已经证明对于分析海洋生物群落随时间的变化非常有用，并且通过开源数据门户提供这些数据集将促进海洋历史生态学框架内的分析。
