Dear all, as mentioned, I am looking for a database which contains information about length at age/maturity, natural mortality, food consumption etc. similar to the 'life history tool' of 'FishBase' but for marine invertebrates. I am mainly looking for e.g. commercial squid species, commercial krill species but also non commercial species. Also, values for marine birds and mammals would be great, assuming this would be another different database.
Any suggestions where I can find something, free accessible?
Goal is to find all necessary values for an Ecosystem model with Ecopath.
Many thanks for any help.
Seaflfebase is exactly like Fishbase but for invertebrates by the same creators. Its not quite as extensive and complete as fishbase yet, but is continually trying to improve its categories. https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Loligo-vulgaris.html
WORMS -> World Register of Marine Species
https://www.marinespecies.org/
for each entry a couple of references are given and the attributes tab often gives information about some of the requested data.
e.g. Pseudocalanus:
https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104165
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More general:
ITIS -> Integrated Taxonomic Information System
https://www.itis.gov/
https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=331699#null
Sealifebase.org (https://www.sealifebase.ca/) extends fishbase for non-fish species. You might also be able to borrow parameter values from previous EwE models in the EcoBase repository (http://ecobase.ecopath.org/).
Pangea, Gbif, Eropabon , soon also lifewatch italy . There is need to do a research on their metadata catalouge .
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