Global decline of pelagic fauna in a warmer ocean
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Date | 2022-10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author(s) | Ariza Alejandro1, Lengaigne Matthieu1, Menkes Christophe2, Lebourges-Dhaussy Anne3, Receveur Aurore4, Gorgues Thomas5, Habasque Jeremie3, Gutiérrez Mariano6, Maury Olivier1, Bertrand Arnaud1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France 2 : ENTROPIE, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia 3 : LEMAR, UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Plouzané, France 4 : CESAB-FRB, Montpellier, France 5 : LOPS, UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Plouzané, France 6 : Instituto Humboldt de Investigación Marina y Acuícola, Lima, Peru |
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Source | Nature Climate Change (1758-678X) (Springer Science and Business Media LLC), 2022-10 , Vol. 12 , N. 10 , P. 928-934 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1038/s41558-022-01479-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | Pelagic fauna is expected to be impacted under climate change according to ecosystem simulations. However, the direction and magnitude of the impact is still uncertain and still not corroborated by observation-based statistical studies. Here we compile a global underwater sonar database and 20 ocean climate projections to predict the future distribution of sound-scattering fauna around the world’s oceans. We show that global pelagic fauna will be seriously compromised by the end of the twenty-first century if we continue under the current greenhouse emission scenario. Low and mid latitudes are expected to lose from 3% to 22% of animal biomass due to the expansion of low-productive systems, while higher latitudes would be populated by present-day temperate fauna, supporting results from ecosystem simulations. We further show that strong mitigation measures to contain global warming below 2 °C would reduce these impacts to less than half. |
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