Pescando funções: atributos funcionais explorados pela pesca através do tempo

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Bruna Ceretta
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Brasil; Ciências Biológicas; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal; Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas
• Palavras-chave em Português: Abordagem baseada em atributos; Conservação marinha; Diversidade funcional; Ecologia histórica; Exploração a longo prazo; Fauna marinha; Functional diversity; Historical ecology; Long-term exploitation; Marine conservation; Marine fauna; Trait-based approach; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/27940

As human civilizations developed and invested in technology, fishing became one of the greatest threats to marine ecosystems, impacting the ecological functions mediated by trait species. However, the exploitation of functional traits over time have never been assessed. Here we investigated the functional spectrum of marine vertebrate taxa exploited in south-southeast Brazilian coast in three different periods: the Shellmounds (8,720 – 230 years BP), the Colonial (1500 – 1966) and the Current period (1967 – 2015). A functional trait space analysis together with kernel density estimates revealed that the full spectrum of functional traits was fished over time. We identified 423 exploited taxa, of which 56 were exploited in all periods. Over time, fisheries have been functionally selective by targeting habitat specialists, invertivorous and macrocarnivorous taxa, with medium and large body size, benthopelagic and pelagic habits. Currently, fishing technology has boosted the capture of new traits far from the coast, such as planktivorous, sedentary, benthic, solitary, and small-bodied taxa. Fishing the entire functional trait spectrum clearly shows that fishing is an activity unsustainable over the centuries, and may be unfeasible in the future for two reasons: depletion of stocks and ecosystem functioning weakened by the poverty of traits.