Lagged recovery of fish spatial distributions following a cold-water perturbation
Abstract Anomalous local temperature and extreme events (e.g. heat-waves) can cause rapid change and gradual recovery of local environmental conditions. However, few studies have tested whether species distribution can recover following returning environmental conditions. Here, we tested for change...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41598-021-89066-x 2023-05-15T17:22:21+02:00 Lagged recovery of fish spatial distributions following a cold-water perturbation Robertson, M. D. Gao, J. Regular, P. M. Morgan, M. J. Zhang, F. Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Ocean Frontier Institute Ocean Choice International Industrial Research Chair program 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89066-x http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89066-x.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89066-x en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Scientific Reports volume 11, issue 1 ISSN 2045-2322 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2021 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89066-x 2022-01-04T14:02:25Z Abstract Anomalous local temperature and extreme events (e.g. heat-waves) can cause rapid change and gradual recovery of local environmental conditions. However, few studies have tested whether species distribution can recover following returning environmental conditions. Here, we tested for change and recovery of the spatial distributions of two flatfish populations, American plaice ( Hippoglossoides platessoides ) and yellowtail flounder ( Limanda ferruginea ), in response to consecutive decreasing and increasing water temperature on the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, Canada from 1985 to 2018. Using a Vector Autoregressive Spatiotemporal model, we found the distributions of both species shifted southwards following a period when anomalous cold water covered the northern sections of the Grand Bank. After accounting for density-dependent effects, we observed that yellowtail flounder re-distributed northwards when water temperature returned and exceeded levels recorded before the cold period, while the spatial distribution of American plaice has not recovered. Our study demonstrates nonlinear effects of an environmental factor on species distribution, implying the possibility of irreversible (or hard-to-reverse) changes of species distribution following a rapid change and gradual recovery of environmental conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Springer Nature (via Crossref) Canada Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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Abstract Anomalous local temperature and extreme events (e.g. heat-waves) can cause rapid change and gradual recovery of local environmental conditions. However, few studies have tested whether species distribution can recover following returning environmental conditions. Here, we tested for change and recovery of the spatial distributions of two flatfish populations, American plaice ( Hippoglossoides platessoides ) and yellowtail flounder ( Limanda ferruginea ), in response to consecutive decreasing and increasing water temperature on the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, Canada from 1985 to 2018. Using a Vector Autoregressive Spatiotemporal model, we found the distributions of both species shifted southwards following a period when anomalous cold water covered the northern sections of the Grand Bank. After accounting for density-dependent effects, we observed that yellowtail flounder re-distributed northwards when water temperature returned and exceeded levels recorded before the cold period, while the spatial distribution of American plaice has not recovered. Our study demonstrates nonlinear effects of an environmental factor on species distribution, implying the possibility of irreversible (or hard-to-reverse) changes of species distribution following a rapid change and gradual recovery of environmental conditions. |
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Lagged recovery of fish spatial distributions following a cold-water perturbation |
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Lagged recovery of fish spatial distributions following a cold-water perturbation |
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