Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic?
Climate change can have major effects on the distribution of species. In marine ecosystems, the cold waters of the Arctic have restricted warmer water species from crossing between Eurasia and North America. However, with Arctic waters becoming warmer, various marine species have expanded their dist...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:513469 2023-05-15T14:27:26+02:00 Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic? Xavier, Jose C. Peck, Lloyd S. Fretwell, Peter Turner, John 2016-03 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513469/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513469/1/Xavier%20et%20al%20-%20Climate%20change%20and%20polar%20range%20expansions.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2850-x en eng Springer https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513469/1/Xavier%20et%20al%20-%20Climate%20change%20and%20polar%20range%20expansions.pdf Xavier, Jose C. orcid:0000-0002-9621-6660 Peck, Lloyd S. orcid:0000-0003-3479-6791 Fretwell, Peter orcid:0000-0002-1988-5844 Turner, John orcid:0000-0002-6111-5122 . 2016 Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic? Marine Biology, 163 (4), 78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2850-x <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2850-x> Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2016 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2850-x 2023-02-04T19:42:59Z Climate change can have major effects on the distribution of species. In marine ecosystems, the cold waters of the Arctic have restricted warmer water species from crossing between Eurasia and North America. However, with Arctic waters becoming warmer, various marine species have expanded their distribution. Cuttlefish are fast-growing, voracious predators and are absent in American waters. The European cuttlefish Sepia officinalis is the most northerly distributed cuttlefish, with potential to expand its range and cross to the American continent, potentially causing changes in shelf food webs. Climate model predictions suggest that the S. officinalis could potentially reach American shores, by 2300 via the north Atlantic with medium mitigation of greenhouse gas concentrations; we predict that adult dispersal of cuttlefish across the Atlantic sector would require a migration distance of over 1400 km at depths below 200 m and temperatures above 7 °C (temperature below which cuttlefish can not maintain routine metabolic processes physiologically). For temperatures above 9.5 °C (temperature above which cuttlefish can grow), 2500 km would be required, and such conditions will possibly exist by the year 2300. If they reach American shores they could have large impacts on coastal marine ecosystems, due to their wide diet (e.g. diet covers many shallow-water crustacean and fish species) and its potential as prey, and due to their short life-history strategy of “live fast, die young”. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change North Atlantic Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Arctic Marine Biology 163 4 |
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Climate change can have major effects on the distribution of species. In marine ecosystems, the cold waters of the Arctic have restricted warmer water species from crossing between Eurasia and North America. However, with Arctic waters becoming warmer, various marine species have expanded their distribution. Cuttlefish are fast-growing, voracious predators and are absent in American waters. The European cuttlefish Sepia officinalis is the most northerly distributed cuttlefish, with potential to expand its range and cross to the American continent, potentially causing changes in shelf food webs. Climate model predictions suggest that the S. officinalis could potentially reach American shores, by 2300 via the north Atlantic with medium mitigation of greenhouse gas concentrations; we predict that adult dispersal of cuttlefish across the Atlantic sector would require a migration distance of over 1400 km at depths below 200 m and temperatures above 7 °C (temperature below which cuttlefish can not maintain routine metabolic processes physiologically). For temperatures above 9.5 °C (temperature above which cuttlefish can grow), 2500 km would be required, and such conditions will possibly exist by the year 2300. If they reach American shores they could have large impacts on coastal marine ecosystems, due to their wide diet (e.g. diet covers many shallow-water crustacean and fish species) and its potential as prey, and due to their short life-history strategy of “live fast, die young”. |
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Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic? |
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Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic? |
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Climate change and polar range expansions: Could cuttlefish cross the Arctic? |
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