Simulating the Effects of Temperature and Food Availability on True Soles (Solea spp.) Early-Life History Traits: A Tool for Understanding Fish Recruitment in Future Climate Change Scenarios

Type Article
Date 2023-02
Language English
Author(s) Sardi Adriana E.1, Moreira José M.2, Omingo Lisa3, Cousin XavierORCID7, Begout Marie-LaureORCID4, Manchado Manuel3, Marn Nina5, 6
Affiliation(s) 1 : EPOC-LPTC, UMR 5805, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, F-33400 Talence, France
2 : MARETEC—Marine, Environment and Technology Center, LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco País 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
3 : IFAPA Centro El Toruño, Junta de Andalucía, Camino Tiro Pichón s/n, 11500 El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain
4 : MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, 34250 Palavas-Les-Flots, France
5 : Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka Cesta 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
6 : School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
7 : MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, 34250 Palavas-Les-Flots, France
Source Fishes (2410-3888) (MDPI), 2023-02 , Vol. 8 , N. 2 , P. 68 (37p.)
DOI 10.3390/fishes8020068
WOS© Times Cited 1
Keyword(s) climate change, dynamic energy budget theory, early-life stages, flatfish, food availability, recruitment
Abstract

Research on recruitment variability has gained momentum in the last years, undoubtedly due to the many unknowns related to climate change impacts. Knowledge about recruitment—the process of small, young fish transitioning to an older, larger life stage—timing and success is especially important for commercial fish species, as it allows predicting the availability of fish and adapting fishing practices for its sustainable exploitation. Predicting tools for determining the combined effect of temperature rise and food quality and quantity reduction (two expected outcomes of climate change) on early-life history traits of fish larvae are valuable for anticipating and adjusting fishing pressure and policy. Here we use a previously published and validated dynamic energy budget (DEB) model for the common sole (Solea solea) and adapt and use the same DEB model for the Senegalese sole (S. senegalensis) to predict the effects of temperature and food availability on Solea spp. early life-history traits. We create seven simulation scenarios, recreating RCP 4.5 and 8.5 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios and including a reduction in food availability. Our results show that temperature and food availability both affect the age at metamorphosis, which is advanced in all scenarios that include a temperature rise and delayed when food is limited. Age at puberty was also affected by the temperature increase but portrayed a more complex response that is dependent on the spawning (batch) period. We discuss the implications of our results in a climate change context.

Full Text
File Pages Size Access
Publisher's official version 37 6 MB Open access
Top of the page

How to cite 

Sardi Adriana E., Moreira José M., Omingo Lisa, Cousin Xavier, Begout Marie-Laure, Manchado Manuel, Marn Nina (2023). Simulating the Effects of Temperature and Food Availability on True Soles (Solea spp.) Early-Life History Traits: A Tool for Understanding Fish Recruitment in Future Climate Change Scenarios. Fishes, 8(2), 68 (37p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8020068 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00817/92906/