Publication Date:
2005-05-14
Description:
We show that the distributions of both exploited and nonexploited North Sea fishes have responded markedly to recent increases in sea temperature, with nearly two-thirds of species shifting in mean latitude or depth or both over 25 years. For species with northerly or southerly range margins in the North Sea, half have shown boundary shifts with warming, and all but one shifted northward. Species with shifting distributions have faster life cycles and smaller body sizes than nonshifting species. Further temperature rises are likely to have profound impacts on commercial fisheries through continued shifts in distribution and alterations in community interactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Perry, Allison L -- Low, Paula J -- Ellis, Jim R -- Reynolds, John D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jun 24;308(5730):1912-5. Epub 2005 May 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. a.perry@uea.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15890845" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Body Size
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*Climate
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*Ecosystem
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Environment
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Fisheries
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*Fishes/anatomy & histology/growth & development
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North Sea
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Population Density
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Population Dynamics
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*Seawater
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Temperature
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Time Factors
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
