A new signal of tropicalization in the Northeast Atlantic: the spread of the spotfin burrfish Chilomycterus reticulatus in Madeira Archipelago and its invasion risk

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Castro, Nuno, Schäfer, Susanne, Parretti, Paola, Monteiro, João Gama, Gizzi, Francesca, Chebaane, Sahar, Almada, Emanuel, Henriques, Filipe, Freitas, Mafalda, Vasco-Rodrigues, Nuno, Silva, Rodrigo, Radeta, Marko, Freitas, Rúben, Canning-Clode, João
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Range expansion; Macaronesia; Non-indigenous species; NIS; AS-ISK; Citizen science; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/7426; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13120639

Funding: N.C. was funded by a doctoral grant (SFRH/BD/146881/2019) awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). S.S. was supported by Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI) research fellowship in the scope of the H2020 project GoJelly. P.P. was funded by a PhD grant ref. M3.1.a/F/065/2015 by Fundo Regional de Ciência e Tecnologia (FRCT) and the program AÇORES 2020. A post-doctoral research fellowship by ARDITI (ARDITI–M1420-09-5369-FSE-000002) supported J.G.M. F.G. was endorsed by a post-doctoral research fellowship granted by ARDITI in the framework of project RAGES (ARDITI-RAGES-2019-001). R.F. was supported by the funding from project INTERWHALE (PTDC/CCI-COM/0450/2020) by FCT. Doctoral fellowships were financially supported S.C. by ARDITI (ARDITI-M1420-09-5369-FSE-000002). R.S. was supported by a research fellowship in the framework of project PLASMAR+(MAC2/1.1a/347). J.C.-C. is funded by national funds through FCT under the Scientific Employment Stimulus—Institutional Call—[CEECINST/00098/2018]. This work was partially funded by MIMAR+(MAC2/4.6.d/249) in the INTERREG MAC 2014–2020 Programme framework. This study also had the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, through the strategic project (UIDB/04292/2020) granted to MARE UI&IUIDB/04292/2020. Finally, the present paper benefited from underwater surveys during the expedition ‘MARE@Porto Santo 20200 conducted by MARE-Madeira. Current trends in the global climate facilitate the displacement of numerous marine species from their native distribution ranges to higher latitudes when facing warming conditions. In this work, we analyzed occurrences of a circumtropical reef fish, the spotfin burrfish, Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1958), in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic) between 1898 and 2021. In addition to available data sources, we performed an online survey to assess the distribution and presence of this species in the Madeira Archipelago, along with other ...