1. FishBase, SealifeBase, AquaMaps
Rainer Froese
HIMFB, Oldenburg, 22 March 2017

2. Outline Information in FishBase Information in SealifeBase
AquaMaps: 25,000 species maps
Next Steps

3. Information in FishBase

4. Information in FishBase
Trophic Ecology
Ecology ● Predators Food items
Diet composition Food consumption
Ration
Reproduction & Life History Maturity ● Spawning ● Eggs Larvae ● Broodstock ● Fry nursery Larval dynamics ● Larval speed
Genetics & Aquaculture Electrophoresis Heritability ● Strains
Population Dynamics
Growth/Mortality ● L/W relations Maximum sizes ● Recruitment L/L relations ● Length frequency
Fish as Food Processing ● Ciguatera FAO catches Aquaculture (production)
Other Tables Pictures ● References Biblio ● Keys ● Sounds
Information in FishBase
Distribution
Occurrence ● FAO areas
Country ● Ecosystem
Introductions
Morphology & Physiology Metabolism ● Gill area
Vision ● Disease Brain ● Abnormalities Ecotoxicology ● Swim mode

5. Information in FishBase
From literature
33,400 fish species (from freshwater, brackish and marine environments)
Up-to-date taxonomy (valid names and synonyms (86,896)) and distribution,
Common names (319,057) in 347 languages for 254 countries,
Size (maximum lengths) 29,500 species,
Longevity (maximum age) 1,314 species
Age at maturity (2,228 age at maturity records),
Reproductive mode (11,584 species),
Fecundity (2,191 records),
Growth (10,592 records for 2,318 species),
Oxygen consumption (7,000 records for 210 species)
Diet (6,857 for 2,264 species),
© J.E. Randall

7. FishBase and Museum Collections
FB links all scientific valid names and synonyms to specimens in museum collections
Facilitates identification of specific bottles in specific museums for comparison.
Opens up the probability that there are specimen which can still be potentially sequenced.

8. Exploiting FishBase data
With climate change, adaptation of fishes to changes in temperature will become essential for their continuous survival.
Adaptation may be possible as:
1. a physiological response to changes in environmental conditions or
2. through natural selection on genetic variation where some individuals are more ‘fit’ in specific environmental regimes.
If genetic variation over phenotypic plasticity is the underlying reason for the adaptation, then genes responsible for this can be identified (Garvin etal., 2015).

9. Information in SealifeBase

10. Content of SLB
Information like in FishBase for 50,000 non-fish species
All marine mammals, reptiles, corals, …
All commercial species (and more) for other groups
Information less complete than in FishBase, scope for expansion

11. Information in AquaMaps

12. Content of AquaMaps Half-degree cells, ~ 290,000 globally
25,000 species, half of all fishes, complete for marine mammals and some other smaller groups
HSPEN: Table with min-max and preferred range (trapezoid) for depth, temperature, salinity, primary productivity [oxygen next, acidity possible]
HCAF: Table with environmental data (depth, temperature, salinity, primary productivity, …) for every cell for current, and 2100
HSPEC: Table (100 million records) with suitability of very cell for every species

13. 2050 Change in Species Composition
Jaccard distance, percent change relative to 2014, Power Scale, preliminary results.

14. 2050 Loss of Species
Loss of species relative to 2014, in percent, Power Scale, preliminary results

15. 2050 New Species
Percent of new species in 2050 total, power scale, preliminary data

16. Winners and Losers in 2050 Remaining Work
Use latest IPCC scenario data for 2050
Add oxygen in HCAF and determine preferences in HSPEN
Add more species near poles and in center of gyres (close blue gaps)
Review maps for crucial groups (those for which maps may be shown by group), e.g. corals, highly commercial species (with SAUP),..
Review maps of species which have lost suitable cells in 2050
Review maps of species that have „exploded“
Assemble team of experts/authors, have 2 workshops
Re-estimate maps for all species, redo analysis
Aim for „Nature Title Page“ publication
Possible GEOMAR, AWI, HIMFB collaboration?

17. Next Steps
Participate in FB Consortium meeting, Tervuren, Belgium, 4- 7 September 2017
Make FB-SLB-AquaMaps a Helmholtz Big Data Project
Decide on first collaboration: prior for growth for all species; prior for r for all species; biomass estimates for global ocean; Winners & Losers paper; other?)
Options to help with funding in 2017?