Data from: Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5°C global warming target ...

• Main Authors: Cheung, William W. L., Reygondeau, Gabriel, Froelicher, Thomas L.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Pacific; Climate change; Global warming
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pq6p2; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pq6p2

Translating the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial level into impact-related targets facilitates communication of the benefits of mitigating climate change to policy-makers and stakeholders. Developing ecologically relevant impact-related targets for marine ecosystem services, such as fisheries, is an important step. Here, we use maximum catch potential and species turnover as climate-risk indicators for fisheries. We project that potential catches will decrease by more than 3 million metric tons per degree Celsius of warming. Species turnover is more than halved when warming is lowered from 3.5° to 1.5°C above the preindustrial level. Regionally, changes in maximum catch potential and species turnover vary across ecosystems, with the biggest risk reduction in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions when the Paris Agreement target is achieved. ... : Data for fig. 1 - 4These are the data used to plot figures 1 - 4 of the paper.Data.zip ...