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Discoveries Of Native And Alien Fish Species In The Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Description
The updated data used in Belmaker et al (2009) describing discoveries of native and alien species in the Mediterranean Sea between the years 1927–2017. The original data is described in full in Golani (2005); see also Golani (2021) for the updated version used here.
Usage
medfish
Format
A data frame with 60 rows and 4 columns:
- year
Year of record
- time
Time since the first record in the records data
- natives
Number of newly recorded native species in corresponding year
- aliens
Number of newly recorded alien species in corresponding year
Source
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/07-1904.1
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4956.1.1
References
Golani, D. 2005. Checklist of the Mediterranean Fishes of Israel. Zootaxa, 947, 1-90. https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.947.1.1
Belmaker, J., Brokovich, E., China, V., Golani, D., and Kiflawi, M. 2009. Estimating the rate of biological introductions: Lessepsian fishes in the Mediterranean. Ecology, 90(4), 1134–1141. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/07-1904.1
Golani, D. 2021. An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants. Zootaxa, 4956, 1-108. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4956.1.1