The fate of the Arctic seaweed Fucus distichus under climate change: an ecological niche modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: Rising temperatures are predicted to melt all perennial ice cover in the Arctic by the end of this century, thus opening up suitable habitat for temperate and subarctic species. Canopy-forming seaweeds provide an ideal system to predict the potential impact of climate-change on rocky-shore ecosystems, given their direct dependence on temperature and their key role in the ecological system. Our primary objective was to predict the climate-change induced range-shift of Fucus distichus, the dominant canopy-forming macroalga in the Arctic and subarctic rocky intertidal. More specifically, we asked: which Arctic/subarctic and cold-temperate shores of the northern hemisphere will display the greatest distributional change of F. distichus and how will this affect niche overlap with seaweeds from

SUBMITTER: Jueterbock A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4801954 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature