Resistance and resilience of pelagic and littoral fishes to drought in the San Francisco Estuary.

ABSTRACT: Many estuarine ecosystems and the fish communities that inhabit them have undergone substantial changes in the past several decades, largely due to multiple interacting stressors that are often of anthropogenic origin. Few are more impactful than droughts, which are predicted to increase in both frequency and severity with climate change. In this study, we examined over five decades of fish monitoring data from the San Francisco Estuary, California, USA, to evaluate the resistance and resilience of fish communities to disturbance from prolonged drought events. High resistance was defined by the lack of decline in species occurrence from a wet to a subsequent drought period, while high resilience was defined by the increase in species occurrence from a drought to a subsequent wet period. We

SUBMITTER: Mahardja B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988542 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature