Reply to 'Sources of uncertainties in cod distribution models'

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Wisz, M. S., Broennimann, O., Grønkjær, P., Møller, P. D. R., Olsen, S. M., Swingedouw, Didier, Hedeholm, R. B., Nielsen, E. E., Guisan, A., Pellissier, L.
• Other Authors: Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Barents Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04616935; https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2762

International audience Ingvaldsen et al.1 comment on our study assessing global fish interchanges between the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans for more than 500 species during the entire twenty-first century2. They propose that discrepancies between our model projections and observed data for cod in the Barents Sea are the result of the choice of atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs). We address this assertion here, re-running the cod model with additional observation data from the Barents Sea1,3, and show that the lack of open-access archived data for the Barents Sea was the primary cause of local prediction mismatch. This finding highlights the importance of systematic deposit of biodiversity data in global databases.