Biodiversity: Concepts, Data, and Preliminary Results

Biodiversity

What is Biodiversity? (1)

What is Biodiversity? (2)

What is Biodiversity? (3)

What are Biodiversity Data?

Biodiversity Core Data (1)

Biodiversity Core Data (2)

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What are the Key Questions?

What are the Key Questions?

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Size vs Temperature in Fishes

Herbivory Fishes by Latitude

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Relative Species Diversity:Taxonomy

Relative Species Diversity:Habitat (1)

Relative Species Diversity:Habitat (2)

Relative Species Diversity:Trophic Level

What are the Key Questions?

Finfish Used for Human Consumption

Fishing Down the Food Web:Mediterranean

Malthusian Overfishing:South China Sea

What are the Key Questions?

Size of Threatened Freshwater Fishes

Gobiidae (gobies)Pandaka pygmaea Herre 1927 (Dwarf pygmy goby), CRSmallest freshwater fish, Lm 0.9 cm male, 1.5 cm female

Rhincodon typus (whale shark)All Oceans. Highly migratory.18 m, ᡪ y., late maturity, low fecundity, DD

Percentage of Redlisted Fishes by Year of First Description

Average size of newly discovered fishes

Threatened Freshwater-dependent Fishes vs Population Density

Threatened Freshwater-dependent Fishes vs Introduced Fishes

Summary