Traits_data_Koutsidi_2023.xlsx

Sheet “data”: This dataset includes six traits related to resource exploitation: maximum length, trophic level, diet and feeding type (to describe the use of food resources), spawning period and spawning habitat (to reflect spawning habitat use). Within each trait, 2–5 trait categories/modalities have been created using information on the species biology and preferences coming from the bibliography for each of the 108 species collected. To include within-species heterogeneity and allow for trait plasticity within a population, a species can have non-zero values for more than one modality per trait in the dataset. Each species has been assigned values ranging from 0 to 1 in a fashion that, within each trait, the sum of all modality proportions equals 1.

Sheet “references”: This worksheet includes one or more numbers representing a reference from which the information to fill in the trait information as data was taken

Sheet “references_list”: This worksheet is a list of reference numbers and the corresponding full references.