Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist

Alan Friedlander; Enric Ballesteros; Jim Beets; Eric Brown; Michael Fay; Philip Haupt; Brad Henning; Paul Rose; Enric Sala

doi:10.25607/l1md8g

Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist

Citation

Friedlander A, Ballesteros E, Beets J, Brown E, Fay M, Haupt P, Henning B, Rose P, Sala E, Earl C (2023). Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/l1md8g accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

We conducted in situ surveys of fishes, corals, and other components of the reef community at 39 locations, in more than 200 hours of scientific diving. We recorded a total of 332 fish species during our expedition. Fish biomass averaged over 4 tonnes per hectare and was dominated by large groupers and trevally (jacks).

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Aldabra Atoll

Bibliographic Citations

Friedlander AM, Ballesteros E, Beets J, Brown EK, Fay JM, Haupt P, Henning B, Rose P, Sala E. 2015. Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles. National Geographic Pristine Seas. - http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14095.69282

Contacts

Alan Friedlander
originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Enric Ballesteros
originator
Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes-CSIC

Jim Beets
originator
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Eric Brown
originator
US National Park Service, Kalaupapa National Historical Park

Michael Fay
originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Philip Haupt
originator
Seychelles Islands Foundation

Brad Henning
originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Paul Rose
originator
Royal Geographical Society

Enric Sala
originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org