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MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas
Cecilia MancusiRomano BainoCaterina FortunaLuis Gil De SolaGabriel MoreyMohamed Nejmeddine BradaiArgyrios KallianotisAlen SoldoFarid HemidaAdib Ali SaadMark DimechPanagiota PeristerakiMichel BaricheSimona CloEleonora SabataLaura CastellanoFulvio GaribaldiLuca LanteriFausto TintiAntonio PaisEmilio SperonePrimo MicarelliFrancois PoissonLetizia SionRoberto CarlucciDaniel Cebrian-mencheroBernard SeretFrancesco FerrettiAlaa El-farIsmet SayguEsmail A. ShakmanAlex BartoliJavier GuallartDimitrios DamalasPersefoni MegalofonouMarino VacchiFrancesco CollocaMassimiliano BottaroGiuseppe Notarbartolo Di SciaraMaria Cristina FollesaRita CannasHakan KabasakalBruno ZavaGraziella CavlanArmelle JungMohammed AbudayaJerina KolitariAdi BarashAleksandar JoksimovicIlija CetkovicBojan MarcetaLuis Gonzalez VilasFrancesco TiralongoIoannis GiovosFilippo BargnesiStefano LelliMonica BaroneStefano MoroCarlotta MazzoldiCharilaou CharisAlvaro Juan AbellaFabrizio Serenasubject
Bycatch; databases; geographical distribution; large elasinobranchs; Mediterranean and Black seas; sharks0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climate2417.05 Biología Marina2510.01 Oceanografía Biológicalarge elasmobranchsMediterranean and Black seascetorhinus-maximus gunnerusOceanographycomputer.software_genre01 natural sciencesBasking sharkPesqueríasThresher shark1st recordsbiologyDatabaseconservationBycatch; databases; geographical distribution; large elasmobranchs; Mediterranean and Black seas; sharks04 agricultural and veterinary sciencescarcharhinidaeGeographyMediterranean and black seacoastbasking sharkLarge elasmobranchcarcharodon-carcharias linnaeusEnvironmental Engineeringdatabases[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global ChangesFishingSede Central IEOAquatic Sciencesharksplumbeus chondrichthyesDatabasesharks.biology.animal[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoologysharks; by-catch; databases; large elasmobranchs; geographical distribution; Mediterranean and Black seasgeographical distributionBycatch ; databases ; geographical distribution ; large elasinobranchs ; Mediterranean and Black seas ; sharks14. Life underwaterEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematicslarge elasinobranchs010604 marine biology & hydrobiologybiology.organism_classificationlamniformes cetorhinidaeby-catchBycatchGreat white sharkBycatchButterfly ray040102 fisheries0401 agriculture forestry and fisheriesConservation status[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecologycomputerdescription
The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains more than 3,000 records (with more than 4,000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 21 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The principal species included in the archive are the devil ray (1,868 individuals), the basking shark (935 individuals), the blue shark (622 individuals), and the great white shark (342 individuals). In the last decades, other species such as the thresher shark (187 individuals), the shortfin mako (180 individuals), and the spiny butterfly ray (138) were reported with increasing frequency. This was possibly due to increased public awareness on the conservation status of sharks, and the consequent development of new monitoring programs. MEDLEM does not have homogeneous reporting coverage throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas and it should be considered as a database of observed species presence. Scientific monitoring efforts in the south-eastern Mediterranean and Black seas are generally lower than in the northern sectors and the absence of some species in our database does not imply their actual absence in these regions. However,the available data allowed us to analyse the frequency and spatial distribution of records, the size frequencies for a few selected species, the overall area coverage, and which species are involved as bycatch by different fishing gears.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2020-05-10 |