Description
The favourable spawning habitat of the Atlantic bluefin tuna is daily identified linking their ecological traits with environmental variables from satellite remote sensing and physical ocean models. The spawning habitat (Atlantic bluefin tuna only) is essentially detected through the seasonal heating of surface waters. Adult bluefin tunas migrate thousands of kilometres to spawn in warmer and less productive waters (Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Mexico) compared to their main feeding ground (North Atlantic Ocean). The physical variables used are sea surface temperature, monthly increase of sea surface temperature, sea surface current and sea surface height anomaly. More information: https://fishreg.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fish-habitat, Peer-reviewed publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079661116000070
Contact
Contributors
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- Jean-Noel Druon
- 0000-0002-0824-8778
How to cite
Druon, Jean-Noel (2016): EMIS - Favourable spawning habitat of adult Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABFT) Monthly 2003-2014 (frequency of occurence, %). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/cc2f75c9-7784-4ca1-a5d5-9d10970d3dc2
Keywords
Atlantic bluefin tuna climate change GIS digital format marine environment marine monitoring Marine protected area ocean color Ocean model satellite observations Spawning Habitat
Data access
Direct NetCDF download
Publications
Spatial coverage
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WKT | POLYGON ((-30 70, 42 70, 42 10, -30 10, -30 70)) |
Temporal coverage
From date | To date |
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2003-01-01 | 2014-12-31 |
Lineage information
General information: Model performance is assessed against the distance of presence data to closest habitat. For bluefin tuna, 75% of observations are closer than 13.9 km of favourable spawning habitat (n = 582).
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2020-11-23
- Modified date
- 2020-11-23
- Issued date
- 2016-01-14
- Landing page
- http://emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Environment
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/cc2f75c9-7784-4ca1-a5d5-9d10970d3dc2
- Popularity
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