Sea temperature is the primary driver of recent and predicted fish community structure across Northeast Atlantic shelf seas.

Autor: Rutterford LA; Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Lowestoft Laboratory, Suffolk, UK.; Biosciences, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.; School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK., Simpson SD; Biosciences, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.; School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK., Bogstad B; Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway., Devine JA; Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway.; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand., Genner MJ; School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Global change biology [Glob Chang Biol] 2023 May; Vol. 29 (9), pp. 2510-2521. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 10.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16633
Abstrakt: Climate change has strongly influenced the distribution and abundance of marine fish species, leading to concern about effects of future climate on commercially harvested stocks. Understanding the key drivers of large-scale spatial variation across present-day marine assemblages enables predictions of future change. Here we present a unique analysis of standardised abundance data for 198 marine fish species from across the Northeast Atlantic collected by 23 surveys and 31,502 sampling events between 2005 and 2018. Our analyses of the spatially comprehensive standardised data identified temperature as the key driver of fish community structure across the region, followed by salinity and depth. We employed these key environmental variables to model how climate change will affect both the distributions of individual species and local community structure for the years 2050 and 2100 under multiple emissions scenarios. Our results consistently indicate that projected climate change will lead to shifts in species communities across the entire region. Overall, the greatest community-level changes are predicted at locations with greater warming, with the most pronounced effects at higher latitudes. Based on these results, we suggest that future climate-driven warming will lead to widespread changes in opportunities for commercial fisheries across the region.
(© 2023 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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