A dataset containing maturity and maternity data from 1087 female sandbar sharks, Carcharhinus plumbeus, collected from the Gulf of Mexico and western north Atlantic Ocean. Data from two studies were combined and maternal condition assigned to each individual for the empirical case study of Harry et al. (2024).
Format
A data frame with 1087 rows and 4 variables:
- FL
Fork length (cm)
- maturity_stage
Binary maturity stage: 0, immature; 1, mature
- maternity_stage
Binary maternity stage: 0, non-maternal; 1, maternal
- source
Originating study:
"Baremore"or"Piercy"
References
Baremore, I.E. and Hale, L.F. (2012) Reproduction of the sandbar shark in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 4(1), 560-572. doi:10.1080/19425120.2012.700904
Harry, A.V., Baremore, I.E. and Piercy, A.N. (2024) Quantifying maternal reproductive output of chondrichthyan fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(10), 1481-1494. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2024-0031
Piercy, A.N., Murie, D.J. and Gelsleichter, J.J. (2016) Histological and morphological aspects of reproduction in the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus in the U.S. south-eastern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Fish Biology 88(5), 1708-1730. doi:10.1111/jfb.12945