Zeynep Ersoy, Charlotte Evangelista, Aitor Larrañaga, Daniel M. Perkins, Javier Sánchez-Hernández, Teofana Chonova, David Cunillera-Montcusí, Carmen García-Comas, Jorge García-Girón, Ioar de Guzman, Justin Pomeranz, Victor Saito, Matías Arim, Dirceu Baumgartner, Gilmar Baumgartner, Mauro Berazategui, Dani Boix, Giovanna Collyer, Jordi Compte, Almir Manoel Cunico, Renee M. van Dorst, Jon Harding, Ursula Gaedke, Stéphanie Gascón, Éder André Gubiani, Daniel Hernández, James R. Junker, Mercedes López-Vázquez, Anderson Luís Maciel, Thomas Mehner, Roger Paulo Mormul, Ramiro Pereira-Garbero, Danielle Petsch, Pitágoras Augusto Piana, Xavier D. Quintana, Julia Reiss, Lucía Rodríguez-Tricot, Jordi Sala, Wilson Sebastián Serra, Tadeu Siqueira, Helen J. Warburton, Matías Zarucki, Ignasi Arranz
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Abstract
Body size is a key trait in ecology due to its influence on metabolism and many other life-history traits that affect population and community responses to environmental variation as well as ecosystem properties. The size spectrum represents the relationship between abundance (or biomass) and body size, independent of species identity. Size spectrum parameters, such as the slope or intercept, have been applied extensively as indicators of ecological status across multiple ecosystem types. The GLOSSAQUA dataset includes data from mainly heterotrophic communities composed of single (e.g., zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, or fish) to multiple taxonomic groups (e.g., from primary consumers to apex predators, and phytoplankton to large zooplankton), across diverse spatial and temporal scales, from surveys in freshwater (43% studies), marine (52% studies) and brackish (5% studies) ecosystems. In total, we compiled a unique global dataset of 8459 size spectrum slopes or exponents, 5237 intercepts, and 4,497 linearity coefficients (i.e., defined by the R2 of the linear fit of the size spectrum) from 127 articles and gray literature (i.e., unpublished datasets). The current dataset aims to help identify the main drivers shaping aquatic size spectrum parameters at a global scale and contribute to cross-ecosystem comparisons. GLOSSAQUA can serve to explore questions such as factors influencing spatial and temporal dynamics of community size structure, comparing the response of community size structure between natural versus human-impacted sites, and comparing global patterns in different aquatic ecosystems. We encourage researchers, especially those from underrepresented geographical areas (e.g., South Hemisphere and Asia) to fuel this dataset in the future. The dataset is provided under a CC-BY-NC-S4 4.0 license, and users are encouraged to cite this data paper when using the data.
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Ecology publishes articles that report on the basic elements of ecological research. Emphasis is placed on concise, clear articles documenting important ecological phenomena. The journal publishes a broad array of research that includes a rapidly expanding envelope of subject matter, techniques, approaches, and concepts: paleoecology through present-day phenomena; evolutionary, population, physiological, community, and ecosystem ecology, as well as biogeochemistry; inclusive of descriptive, comparative, experimental, mathematical, statistical, and interdisciplinary approaches.