Modelling the impacts of climate change on thermal habitat suitability for shallow-water marine fish at a global scale.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and predicting the response of marine communities to climate change at large spatial scales, and distilling this information for policymakers, are prerequisites for ecosystem-based management. Changes in thermal habitat suitability across species' distributions are especially concerning because of their implications for abundance, affecting species' conservation, trophic interactions and fisheries. However, most predictive studies of the effects of climate change have tended to be sub-global in scale and focused on shifts in species' range edges or commercially exploited species. Here, we develop a widely applicable methodology based on climate response curves to predict global-scale changes in thermal habitat suitability. We apply the approach across the distributions of 2,2

SUBMITTER: Lavender E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8489719 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature