Substrate-dependent fish have shifted less in distribution under climate change.

ABSTRACT: Analyses of the impacts of climate change on fish species have primarily considered dynamic oceanographic variables that are the output of predictive models, yet fish species distributions are determined by much more than just variables such as ocean temperature. Functionally diverse species are differentially influenced by oceanographic as well as physiographic variables such as bottom substrate, thereby influencing their ability to shift distributions. Here, we show that fish species distributions that are more associated with bottom substrate than other dynamic environmental variables have shifted significantly less over the last 30 years than species whose distributions are associated with bottom salinity. Correspondingly, species whose distributions are primarily determined by bottom

SUBMITTER: Roberts SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567839 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature