Fine-scale abundance of rocky shore macroalgae species with distribution limits in NW Iberia in 2020/2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Climate change has been increasing at an unprecedented rate in the last decades. Global warming has been causing a variety of impacts in marine ecosystems, including shifts in the geographical ranges of species. The north-western Iberian Peninsula coast is particularly interesting to study distribution shifts as it features a strong latitude thermal gradient, establishing a biogeographical transitional region where several cold- and warm-adapted species have their equatorward or poleward distributions. In the early 2000s, it appeared that, while warm-water species were already responding to warming, cold-water species did not display a coherent response. It is now necessary to gather up-to-date data on the distribution of the same group of species to understand if curren

SUBMITTER: Pereira J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005454 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature