Impacts of climate change and fisheries on the Celtic Sea ecosystem ...

• Main Author: Lauria, Valentina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Plymouth 2012
• Subjects: Seabirds; Climate change; Fisheries; Pelagic food web; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24382/2197; https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/1166

Climate change and fisheries have affected marine environments worldwide leading to impacts on ecosystem structure and functioning. However there is clear evidence of spatial variability in the response of these impacts both within and among marine ecosystems. Although several studies have tried to explain the effect of these impacts on marine food webs, it is unclear how they interact, and how they may affect marine ecosystems remains an important unanswered question. This suggests the urgent need for multiple-trophic level and ecosystem-based management approaches to account for both fisheries and climate change impacts at ocean basins across the globe. Marine apex predators, such as seabirds, are vulnerable to the effects of both climate and fishing impacts, and can be used as reliable and sensitive bio-indicators of the status of the marine ecosystem. The Celtic Sea ecosystem is a productive shelf region in the Northeast Atlantic. It is characterized by high fish and invertebrate biodiversity. In ...