A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins

A growing interest is devoted to global-scale approaches in ecology and evolution that examine patterns and determinants of species diversity and the threats resulting from global change. These analyses obviously require global datasets of species distribution. Freshwater systems house a disproportionately high fraction of the global fish diversity considering the small proportion of the earth’s surface that they occupy, and are one of the most threatened habitats on Earth. Here we provide complete species lists for 3119 drainage basins covering more than 80% of the Earth surface using 14953 fish species inhabiting permanently or occasionally freshwater systems. The database results from an extensive survey of native and non-native freshwater fish species distribution based on 1436 published papers, books, grey literature and web-based sources. Alone or in combination with further datasets on species biological and ecological characteristics and their evolutionary history, this database represents a highly valuable source of information for further studies on freshwater macroecology, macroevolution, biogeography and conservation. Design Type(s) data integration objective • database creation objective • species comparison design Measurement Type(s) biodiversity assessment objective Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) geographic location Sample Characteristic(s) Earth • drainage basin Design Type(s) data integration objective • database creation objective • species comparison design Measurement Type(s) biodiversity assessment objective Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) geographic location Sample Characteristic(s) Earth • drainage basin Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Scientific Data

• Publication date

  2017-10-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/sdata.2017.141PMID 28972575PMCID 5625552
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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