Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations
The consistency of the global declining trend of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations suggests that climate-driven reduced survival and growth at sea are the main driving factors. The southernmost populations have experienced the greatest declines, consistent with harsher conditions in natal fr...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/cjfas-2018-0297 2024-06-23T07:51:12+00:00 Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations Almodóvar, Ana Ayllón, Daniel Nicola, Graciela G. Jonsson, Bror Elvira, Benigno 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0297 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0297 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0297 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences volume 76, issue 9, page 1581-1595 ISSN 0706-652X 1205-7533 journal-article 2019 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0297 2024-06-06T04:11:19Z The consistency of the global declining trend of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations suggests that climate-driven reduced survival and growth at sea are the main driving factors. The southernmost populations have experienced the greatest declines, consistent with harsher conditions in natal fresh waters. We analyzed temporal trends in Spanish Atlantic salmon, important food organisms at sea, and climatic variables in the breeding (fresh water) and feeding (marine) salmon areas from 1950 onwards to elucidate drivers of declining patterns. Salmon abundance dropped abruptly in 1970–1971, plausibly linked to widespread overfishing coincident with incipient changes in the marine food webs and freshwater hydrology. A major regime shift in biophysical conditions throughout the North Atlantic salmon feeding grounds occurred in 1986–1987, driven by the concurrence of an abrupt acceleration in the anthropogenic warming trend and the warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. This regime shift may be the proximate cause of the collapse of Spanish salmon observed in 1988–1989, which kept declining in parallel to trends of ever-increasing ocean and freshwater temperatures, decreasing river flows, and poorer marine trophic conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon North Atlantic Salmo salar Canadian Science Publishing Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76 9 1581 1595 |
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The consistency of the global declining trend of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations suggests that climate-driven reduced survival and growth at sea are the main driving factors. The southernmost populations have experienced the greatest declines, consistent with harsher conditions in natal fresh waters. We analyzed temporal trends in Spanish Atlantic salmon, important food organisms at sea, and climatic variables in the breeding (fresh water) and feeding (marine) salmon areas from 1950 onwards to elucidate drivers of declining patterns. Salmon abundance dropped abruptly in 1970–1971, plausibly linked to widespread overfishing coincident with incipient changes in the marine food webs and freshwater hydrology. A major regime shift in biophysical conditions throughout the North Atlantic salmon feeding grounds occurred in 1986–1987, driven by the concurrence of an abrupt acceleration in the anthropogenic warming trend and the warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. This regime shift may be the proximate cause of the collapse of Spanish salmon observed in 1988–1989, which kept declining in parallel to trends of ever-increasing ocean and freshwater temperatures, decreasing river flows, and poorer marine trophic conditions. |
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Almodóvar, Ana Ayllón, Daniel Nicola, Graciela G. Jonsson, Bror Elvira, Benigno Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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Almodóvar, Ana Ayllón, Daniel Nicola, Graciela G. Jonsson, Bror Elvira, Benigno |
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Almodóvar, Ana |
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Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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Climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost European Atlantic salmon populations |
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climate-driven biophysical changes in feeding and breeding environments explain the decline of southernmost european atlantic salmon populations |
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Atlantic salmon North Atlantic Salmo salar |
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