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Sizing ocean giants: intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
2016-06-09T02:27:52
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Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
What are the greatest sizes that the largest marine megafauna obtain? This is a simple question with a difficult and complex answer. Many of the largest-sized species occur in the world’s oceans. For many of these, rarity, remoteness, and quite simply the logistics of measuring these giants has made obtaining accurate size measurements difficult. Inaccurate reports of maximum sizes run rampant through the scientific literature and popular media. Moreover, how intraspecific variation in the body sizes of these animals relates to sex, population structure, the environment, and interactions with humans remains underappreciated. Here, we review and analyze body size for 25 ocean giants ranging across the animal kingdom. For each taxon we document body size for the largest known marine species of several clades. We also analyze intraspecific variation and identify the largest known individuals for each species. Where data allows, we analyze spatial and temporal intraspecific size variation. We also provide allometric scaling equations between different size measurements as resources to other researchers. In some cases, the lack of data prevents us from fully examining these topics and instead we specifically highlight these deficiencies and the barriers that exist for data collection. Overall, we found considerable variability in intraspecific size distributions from strongly left- to strongly right-skewed. We provide several allometric equations that allow for estimation of total lengths and weights from more easily obtained measurements. In several cases, we also quantify considerable geographic variation and decreases in size likely attributed to humans.<br /><span style='font-weight: bold;'><br />Citation:</span> McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Data from: Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 3293 records<br /><br /><span style='font-weight: bold;'>Online:</span> <a href='http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=sizinggiants' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=sizinggiants</a> Released on July 2, 2015.<br /><br /><span style='font-weight: bold;'>Bibliographic Citations: </span><br /><ul><li> McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Peer J 3: e715.</citation></li><li>McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm R, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD (2015) Data from: Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.411mv</li></ul>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><font size='3'><b>Item Page Created:</b> 2016-06-09 02:27 <br /><b>Item Page Last Modified:</b> 2025-04-05 20:23<br />Owner: mackayk_NIWA</font><br /><br /><b><font size='5'>Sizing_giants</font></b><br /><b>No data edit dates available</b><br /><b>Fields:</b> id,modified,language,bibliographicCitation,institutionCode,collectionCode,datasetName,basisOfRecord,dynamicProperties,catalogNumber,occurrenceRemarks,individualCount,sex,lifeStage,occurrenceStatus,associatedTaxa,eventID,samplingProtocol,eventDate,startDayOfYear,year,month,day,fieldNumber,waterBody,country,stateProvince,county,locality,minimumDepthInMeters,maximumDepthInMeters,decimalLatitude,decimalLongitude,geodeticDatum,coordinateUncertaintyInMeters,footprintWKT,identifiedBy,typeStatus,scientificNameID,scientificName,kingdom,phylum,class,order_,family,genus,subgenus,specificEpithet,infraspecificEpithet,scientificNameAuthorship,FID<br />
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