Western Washington University Western CEDAR 2014 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (Seattle, Wash.) May 1st, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM The Salish Sea Ecosystem in FishBase and SeaLifeBase Maria Lourdes D. Palomares Fisheries Centre, m.palomares@fin.ph Nicolas Bailly WorldFish Patricia Yap FIN Daniel Pauly Fisheries Centre Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec Part of the Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons Palomares, Maria Lourdes D.; Bailly, Nicolas; Yap, Patricia; and Pauly, Daniel, "The Salish Sea Ecosystem in FishBase and SeaLifeBase" (2014). Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 62. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2014ssec/Day2/62 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences and Events at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact westerncedar@wwu.edu. April 30 - May 2, 2014 Washington State Convention & Trade Center Seattle, Washington Marine Birds and Mammals of the Salish Sea: Identifying Patterns and Causes of Change The Salish Sea in FishBase and SeaLifeBase MLD Palomares and N Bailly 1 May 2014 www.sealifebase.ca www.fishbase.ca Objectives of the study • Document the marine biodiversity of the Salish Sea and its sub- ecosystems in FishBase and SeaLifeBase; • Complete this documentation at least for vertebrates. The Salish Sea in FishBase and SeaLifeBase April 2014 version 2,280 marine species assigned to the Salish Sea based on about 100 references Biological data from 165 references Compared with previousstudies Number of species 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 50 0 Marine mammals Sea birds Pisces Tunicata 82 references all together FishBase/SeaLifeBase Annelida Arthropoda Bryozoa Chlorophyta Cnidaria Ctenophora Echinodermata Gaydos Mollusca Cowles (2005) Nemertea Ochrophyta et al.(2008, 2011) Phoronida Platyhelminthes Porifera Rhodophyta Sipuncula Salish Sea fishes in FishBase (n=238) Ray Troll Checked by Andy Lamb and Eric Taylor Checked against Peden (2002) Will be checked against Pietch and Orr 85% based on: Hart (1973), MacAllister (1990) Clemens et al. (1961) Favaro et al. (2010) Williams et al. (2010) 25 other orders Scorpaeniformes Pleuronectiformes Salmoniformes Perciiformes http://www.fishbase.ca/trophiceco/FishEcoList.php?ve_code=1067 Very low Lmax=233 cm TL=3.57 Simple profiles High Lmax=14.1 cm TL=3.31 Low Lmax=96.7 cm TL=3.70 Medium Lmax=39.2 cm TL=3.44 Trophic pyramid • Trophic level estimates from diet composition and food items. • Top predators: large species Salish Sea marine species in SeaLifeBase >90% based on : Macdonald et al. (2010);Lamb et al. (2011); Pacific Northwest Shell Club (2014); Schoch and Diether (2001); Marliave et al. (2011); Lambert and Austrin (2007); Gaydos and Pearson (2011); Backe et al. (2011); Elahi (2012); and Lambert (2000). Mike A. Yap, SeaLifeBase Marine Nemertea Ochrophyta mammals Porifera Tunicata Bryozoa Sea birds Rhodophyta Mollusca Cnidaria Echinodermata Arthropoda Pisces Annelida Trophic pyramid Trophic level estimates from diet composition and food items. Top predators: seabirds and cetaceans Also available for Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia How about the Salish Sea? Missing data in FishBase and SeaLifeBase • 68% of fish species have biological data in FishBase; • Only about 14% of non-fish metazoans, including some species with CR status in IUCN, have data in SeaLifeBase; • groups not well covered are: Cnidaria, Annelida, Kamptozoa, Kinorhyncha, Nemertea, Platyhelminthes, Porifera and Sipuncula; • Data gaps include diet composition studies in marine vertebrates (including fish), and maximum sizes and reproduction in invertebrates. THANK YOU! Pearsall Ecological Consulting for funding this work Sea Around Us for funding my participation in this conference Ted Pietsch for letting us use Ray Troll’s mural Mike Pan for the map and vertebrate artwork SeaLifeBase and FishBase team members for encoding the data FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc. IT Team for updating the *.ca web mirrors Salamat! Merci!.