Range map data of marine ecosystem structuring species under global climate change.

ABSTRACT: Data on contemporary and future geographical distributions of marine species are crucial for guiding conservation and management policies in face of climate change. However, available distributional patterns have overlooked key ecosystem structuring species, despite their numerous ecological and socioeconomic services. Future range estimates are mostly available for few species at regional scales, and often rely on the outdated Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios of climate change, hindering global biodiversity estimates within the framework of current international climate policies. Here, we provide range maps for 980 marine structuring species of seagrasses, kelps, fucoids, and cold-water corals under present-day conditions (from 2010 to 2020) and future scenarios (from 2090 t

SUBMITTER: Gouvea L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10827387 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature