Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea
Accounting for biotic interactions is important for predicting species and ecosystem variation under changing climate but difficult to achieve in practice. The proportion of geographical overlap between species, called species geographical sensitivity (SGS), could be used to gauge the potential for...
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| author | Chih-Wei Tu Yin-Zheng Lai Hsiao Chien Chen Chi-Yun Kuo Chi-Yun Kuo Pei-Fen Lee Chia-Ying Ko Chia-Ying Ko Chia-Ying Ko |
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| description | Accounting for biotic interactions is important for predicting species and ecosystem variation under changing climate but difficult to achieve in practice. The proportion of geographical overlap between species, called species geographical sensitivity (SGS), could be used to gauge the potential for species interactions. Species with increasingly high SGS could have the potential to experience more interactions with other species and vice versa, which might have important implications in ecological assessment, particularly at a community level, in the face of climate change. We compiled fish occurrences in the North Sea from 1983 to 2020 and calculated annual mean SGS (mSGS) to systematically evaluate their temporal changes and to estimate influences of species traits on the relative temporal changes in mSGS. The results showed that 36.3% of species significantly changed their mSGS over time, with high correlations between changes in species range size and overlap with other species. The species’ averaged mSGS before warming was highly correlated with the relative change in mSGS. Depth range, body length, and age at maturity together explained most variation in mSGS among these species. Contemporary climate change is expected to reorganize species distributions and interactions and substantially alter marine ecosystem functioning. Our assessment opens a new avenue for evaluating climate change impacts on species geographical interactions, and such geographical changes may be contingent on species traits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c592b09cebdb485c95cfa7ac3e47837f2022-12-22T04:10:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452022-02-01810.3389/fmars.2021.748278748278Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North SeaChih-Wei Tu0Yin-Zheng Lai1Hsiao Chien Chen2Chi-Yun Kuo3Chi-Yun Kuo4Pei-Fen Lee5Chia-Ying Ko6Chia-Ying Ko7Chia-Ying Ko8Institute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanInstitute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanInstitute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanInstitute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanDepartment of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, TaiwanInstitute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanInstitute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanDepartment of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanDepartment of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, TaiwanAccounting for biotic interactions is important for predicting species and ecosystem variation under changing climate but difficult to achieve in practice. The proportion of geographical overlap between species, called species geographical sensitivity (SGS), could be used to gauge the potential for species interactions. Species with increasingly high SGS could have the potential to experience more interactions with other species and vice versa, which might have important implications in ecological assessment, particularly at a community level, in the face of climate change. We compiled fish occurrences in the North Sea from 1983 to 2020 and calculated annual mean SGS (mSGS) to systematically evaluate their temporal changes and to estimate influences of species traits on the relative temporal changes in mSGS. The results showed that 36.3% of species significantly changed their mSGS over time, with high correlations between changes in species range size and overlap with other species. The species’ averaged mSGS before warming was highly correlated with the relative change in mSGS. Depth range, body length, and age at maturity together explained most variation in mSGS among these species. Contemporary climate change is expected to reorganize species distributions and interactions and substantially alter marine ecosystem functioning. Our assessment opens a new avenue for evaluating climate change impacts on species geographical interactions, and such geographical changes may be contingent on species traits.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.748278/fullgeographical interactiongeographical sensitivityspecies co-occurrenceclimate changemarine fish |
| spellingShingle | Chih-Wei Tu Yin-Zheng Lai Hsiao Chien Chen Chi-Yun Kuo Chi-Yun Kuo Pei-Fen Lee Chia-Ying Ko Chia-Ying Ko Chia-Ying Ko Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea Frontiers in Marine Science geographical interaction geographical sensitivity species co-occurrence climate change marine fish |
| title | Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea |
| title_full | Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea |
| title_fullStr | Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea |
| title_short | Trends in Geographic Sensitivity of Marine Fishes Over Decades in the North Sea |
| title_sort | trends in geographic sensitivity of marine fishes over decades in the north sea |
| topic | geographical interaction geographical sensitivity species co-occurrence climate change marine fish |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.748278/full |
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