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Letter: Seascape topography slows predicted range shifts in fish under climate change
Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Vol.6(3), pp.143-153
06/2021
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Abstract
Shifts in marine species distributions are occurring rapidly in response to climate change, yet predicted rates of change are partly dependent on the data used to estimate species distributions. While pelagic fishes are known to respond to dynamic oceanographic variables, static topographic features can also regulate their distributions, yet the effect of topography on rates of range shifts remains poorly understood. For a suite of five pelagic fishes from an ocean warming hotspot, we developed generalized additive mixed models that did and did not incorporate preferences for seascape topographic heterogeneity when estimating species distributions. Monthly spatial predictions over two decades revealed that poleward extensions in species' core environmental habitats were significantly reduced by 5.3–60.4% (7.1–131.4 km per decade) when preferences for seascape topography were incorporated. These findings suggest that ignoring species associations with static environmental features can substantially affect predicted rates of climate-driven redistributions in fishes.
Details
- Title
- Letter: Seascape topography slows predicted range shifts in fish under climate change
- Creators
- Curtis Champion - NSW Department of Primary IndustriesMelinda A Coleman - NSW Department of Primary Industries
- Publication Details
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Vol.6(3), pp.143-153
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- This research is part of the NSW Primary Industries Climate Change Research Strategy, funded by the Climate Change Fund.
- Identifiers
- 991012963487702368
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Authors. Limnology and Oceanography Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; National Marine Science Centre; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication