Climate Change Impacts on the Phenology of Laurentian Great Lakes Fishes.

ABSTRACT: Freshwater ecosystems around the world are increasingly impacted by climate change, yet there remains a lack of long-term empirical data on how these changes are manifesting. In the Laurentian Great Lakes, a globally significant freshwater system, fish and their habitats are expected to be affected by warming water temperatures and increasing risks of species invasions. Despite these projections, relatively few studies have documented whether such shifts are already occurring. Our objective was to assess how climate change has influenced the community and migration phenology of native and non-native fishes that use coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes. To do so, we analyzed local summer water temperatures and a 27-year dataset (1997-2023) comprising arrivals of 16 fish species intercepted a

SUBMITTER: Piczak ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12365581 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature