Shifts in the climate space of temperate cyprinid fishes due to climate change are coupled with altered body sizes and growth rates.

ABSTRACT: Predictions of species responses to climate change often focus on distribution shifts, although responses can also include shifts in body sizes and population demographics. Here, shifts in the distributional ranges ('climate space'), body sizes (as maximum theoretical body sizes, L∞) and growth rates (as rate at which L∞ is reached, K) were predicted for five fishes of the Cyprinidae family in a temperate region over eight climate change projections. Great Britain was the model area, and the model species were Rutilus rutilus, Leuciscus leuciscus, Squalius cephalus, Gobio gobio and Abramis brama. Ensemble models predicted that the species' climate spaces would shift in all modelled projections, with the most drastic changes occurring under high emissions; all range centroids shifted in a n

SUBMITTER: Ruiz-Navarro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5021213 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature