Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

Cheung, William W. L.; Lam, Vicky W. Y.; Sarmiento, Jorge L.; Kearney, Kelly; Watson, Reg; Pauly, Daniel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00315.x

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“…The association between the global climate change and species invasion pattern suggests that the invasion rate by the alien species will not decrease soon (Cheung et al 2009). The consequence of the augmenting invasion includes an array of ecological, economic and health impacts (Pimentel et al 2005, Reaser et al 2007, Groom et al 2006.…”

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Impact of Mikania micrantha H.B.K. Invasion on Diversity and Abundance of Plant Species of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Shrestha

Dangol

2015

J. Inst. Sci. Tech.

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This research investigated the invasion of the alien plant Mikania micrantha H.B.K. and its impact on plant species richness and abundance in Chitwan National Park (CNP) forest. Stratified sampling technique was used to collect the information using the nested quadrats in the Mikania invaded and not invaded sites in July 2011. The study revealed that the invasion highly related with the vegetation structure of the habitat; higher the tree crown cover lower the invasion. On the other hand, the invasion in terms of cover percent of Mikania irrespective of the biomass (fresh weight) decreased plant species richness. Species richness showed unimodal response to the Mikania cover percent with the decrease after 35% of Mikania cover.

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Impact of Mikania micrantha H.B.K. Invasion on Diversity and Abundance of Plant Species of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Shrestha

Dangol

2015

J. Inst. Sci. Tech.

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“…Targeted species and their habitats are under pressure from land-based sources of pollution (including runoff from agricultural land), unsustainable and destructive fishing, disease outbreaks and invasive species. Against this backdrop of conventional local stressors, has emerged the global threat of climate change (Cheung et al 2009). …”

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The Links Between Resource Dependency and Attitude of Commercial Fishers to Coral Reef Conservation in the Red Sea

Marshall

Abdulla³

et al. 2010

AMBIO

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The imperative to further constrain extractive uses of natural resources will strengthen as resources degrade through over-use or exposure to climate changes. Here, we explore an approach to increase the support for marine conservation among coral reef fishers. We explore the proposition that resource dependency in the Egyptian Red Sea can act as a barrier to conservation. We administered face-to-face surveys to 49% of the fishing industry to: (i) identify the level of compliance to the local marine protected area (MPA), (ii) assess the level of dependency on marine resources in the region and (iii) examine the relationship between resource dependency and conservation attitudes. Only 11.4% of fishers were aware of the MPA. Fishers were mostly limited in their social flexibility and livelihood options. Results suggest that resource dependency is highly and negatively correlated with conservation attitudes suggesting that management efforts need to seriously focus on reducing dependency if conservation goals are to be met.

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“…Lake altitude (ALT), precipitation of driest month (PDM), temperature annual range (TAR) and annual mean temperature (AMT) were identified as the main factors in predicting fish species assemblages in Chinese lakes, among which altitude was the most important determinant. In fact, altitude, precipitation and temperature have long been acknowledged as main determinants of the distribution of organisms, such as plants (Prasad et al, 2006;Pottier et al, 2013), fish and invertebrates (Buisson et al, 2008a(Buisson et al, ,b, 2010Cheung et al, 2009).…”

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Predicting fish species richness and assemblages with climatic, geographic and morphometric factors: A broad-scale study in Chinese lakes

Guo

Lek

et al. 2015

Limnologica

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a b s t r a c tThe present study was designed to investigate the relative importance of climatic (temperature and precipitation), geographic (altitude) and morphometric (lake area) factors in predicting fish species richness and assemblages in Chinese lakes at a large spatial scale. Two recursive partitioning tree-based approaches: Classification and Regression Trees (CARTs) and Multivariate Regression Trees (MRTs) were employed to generate predictive models respectively. Six fish assemblages were thus defined from the MRT model. The results indicated that lake altitude was the main determinant for predicting fish assemblages in Chinese lakes (30.43%), followed by precipitation of the driest month (10.47%), temperature annual range (3.62%) and annual mean temperature (3.15%). Validated CART model implied that precipitation of driest month, maximum temperature of warmest month and lake area were the main predictors in determining fish species richness patterns. Overall, our results indicated that the altitudinal extent and range of climatic variation was sufficient to overshadow the area effect in predicting fish species richness and assemblages in Chinese lakes. At the macroecological scale, the effect of temperature and precipitation on fish richness and assemblages also suggests future changes in fish diversity as a consequence of climate change.

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Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

Cited by 1,341 publications

References 89 publications

Impact of Mikania micrantha H.B.K. Invasion on Diversity and Abundance of Plant Species of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Impact of Mikania micrantha H.B.K. Invasion on Diversity and Abundance of Plant Species of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

The Links Between Resource Dependency and Attitude of Commercial Fishers to Coral Reef Conservation in the Red Sea

Predicting fish species richness and assemblages with climatic, geographic and morphometric factors: A broad-scale study in Chinese lakes

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