Evidence of climate-driven regime shifts in the Aegean Sea's demersal resources: A study spanning six decades.

ABSTRACT: Climate change (CC) can alter the configuration of marine ecosystems; however, ecosystem response and resilience to change are usually case-specific. The effect of CC on the demersal resources of the Aegean Sea (east Mediterranean Sea) was investigated during the past six decades applying a combination of multivariate analysis, non-additive modeling and the Integrated Resilience Assessment (IRA) framework. We focused on the study of: (i) the biological "system" complex, using proxies of biomass (landings per unit of capacity) for 12 demersal taxa, and (ii) the environmental "stressor" complex, described by 12 abiotic variables. Pronounced changes have occurred in both the environmental and biological system over the studied period. The majority of the environmental stressors exhibited stri

SUBMITTER: Damalas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668738 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature