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Global proliferation of cephalopods

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, May 2016
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Title
Global proliferation of cephalopods
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Current Biology, May 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.002
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Zoë A. Doubleday, Thomas A.A. Prowse, Alexander Arkhipkin, Graham J. Pierce, Jayson Semmens, Michael Steer, Stephen C. Leporati, Sílvia Lourenço, Antoni Quetglas, Warwick Sauer, Bronwyn M. Gillanders

Abstract

Human activities have substantially changed the world's oceans in recent decades, altering marine food webs, habitats and biogeochemical processes [1]. Cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopuses) have a unique set of biological traits, including rapid growth, short lifespans and strong life-history plasticity, allowing them to adapt quickly to changing environmental conditions [2-4]. There has been growing speculation that cephalopod populations are proliferating in response to a changing environment, a perception fuelled by increasing trends in cephalopod fisheries catch [4,5]. To investigate long-term trends in cephalopod abundance, we assembled global time-series of cephalopod catch rates (catch per unit of fishing or sampling effort). We show that cephalopod populations have increased over the last six decades, a result that was remarkably consistent across a highly diverse set of cephalopod taxa. Positive trends were also evident for both fisheries-dependent and fisheries-independent time-series, suggesting that trends are not solely due to factors associated with developing fisheries. Our results suggest that large-scale, directional processes, common to a range of coastal and oceanic environments, are responsible. This study presents the first evidence that cephalopod populations have increased globally, indicating that these ecologically and commercially important invertebrates may have benefited from a changing ocean environment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 330 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 62 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 16%
Student > Master 46 13%
Student > Bachelor 43 13%
Other 15 4%
Other 50 15%
Unknown 70 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 132 39%
Environmental Science 66 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 4%
Unspecified 8 2%
Other 14 4%
Unknown 89 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1363. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2023.
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#9,341
of 25,501,527 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#99
of 14,728 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#106
of 312,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#2
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