Habitat: Pelagic
Main role: Predator
Trophic level: t.b.t.
Diet: Dolphins eat many species of fish like sardines, herrings, and bonitos, octopuses and squids. They are fast swimmers, swimming up to the speed of 60 km per hour.
Threats: Dolphins are sensitive for habitat degradation, caused by pollution, coastal development, and other human activities. Overfishing of prey by humans can lead to food shortages for dolphins, affecting their health and reproduction. Dolphins can become unintentional victims of fishing operations, particularly in nets and lines meant for other species.
Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.
Dolphins is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).
Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge North Sea Edition.
Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Baltic Sea Edition.
Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Clyde Marine Region Edition.
Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.
The type of dolphin that lives in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis). This species is known for its sleek body and distinctive pattern of yellow and grey stripes on its sides. Another species found in the Eastern Mediterranean is the stripe dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba), who is also known as the blue-white dolphin due to its coloration pattern (WoRMS Editorial Board, 2023).
World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed 2023-10-02. doi:10.14284/170
Dolphins is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE). The simplified EwE Eastern Mediterranean model was adjusted for use in the MSP Challenge by Eyal Ofir.
For more information on how Ecopath-with-Ecosim (EwE) works, please visit our Wiki page or visit the official EwE website at https://ecopath.org.
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