Species on the move around the Australian coastline: a continental-scale review of climate-driven species redistribution in marine systems
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors report the results of a multi-taxon continent-wide review describing observed and predicted species redistribution around the Australian coastline, and highlight critical gaps in knowledge impeding our understanding of, and response to, these considerable changes.Abstract:
Climate‐driven changes in the distribution of species are a pervasive and accelerating impact of climate change, and despite increasing research effort in this rapidly emerging field, much remains unknown or poorly understood. We lack a holistic understanding of patterns and processes at local, regional and global scales, with detailed explorations of range shifts in the southern hemisphere particularly under‐represented. Australian waters encompass the world's third largest marine jurisdiction, extending from tropical to sub‐Antarctic climate zones, and have waters warming at rates twice the global average in the north and two to four times in the south. Here, we report the results of a multi‐taxon continent‐wide review describing observed and predicted species redistribution around the Australian coastline, and highlight critical gaps in knowledge impeding our understanding of, and response to, these considerable changes. Since range shifts were first reported in the region in 2003, 198 species from nine Phyla have been documented shifting their distribution, 87.3% of which are shifting poleward. However, there is little standardization of methods or metrics reported in observed or predicted shifts, and both are hindered by a lack of baseline data. Our results demonstrate the importance of historical data sets and underwater visual surveys, and also highlight that approximately one‐fifth of studies incorporated citizen science. These findings emphasize the important role the public has had, and can continue to play, in understanding the impact of climate change. Most documented shifts are of coastal fish species in sub‐tropical and temperate systems, while tropical systems in general were poorly explored. Moreover, most distributional changes are only described at the poleward boundary, with few studies considering changes at the warmer, equatorward range limit. Through identifying knowledge gaps and research limitations, this review highlights future opportunities for strategic research effort to improve the representation of Australian marine species and systems in climate‐impact research.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Emily Nicholson,Emily Nicholson,Kate E. Watermeyer,Jessica A. Rowland,Chloe F. Sato,Simone L. Stevenson,Angela Andrade,Thomas M. Brooks,Thomas M. Brooks,Thomas M. Brooks,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess,Su-Ting Cheng,Hedley S. Grantham,Samantha L. L. Hill,David A. Keith,David A. Keith,David A. Keith,Martine Maron,Daniel Metzke,Nicholas J. Murray,Cara R. Nelson,Cara R. Nelson,David Obura,Andy Plumptre,Andrew Skowno,James E. M. Watson +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal and milestones, founded on a theory of change, and review available indicators to measure progress, including area, integrity, and risk of collapse.
Journal ArticleDOI
Poleward bound: adapting to climate-driven species redistribution
Jess Melbourne-Thomas,Jess Melbourne-Thomas,Asta Audzijonyte,M Brasier,Katherine A. Cresswell,Katherine A. Cresswell,Hannah E. Fogarty,Marcus Haward,Alistair J. Hobday,Alistair J. Hobday,Heather L. Hunt,Scott D. Ling,Phillipa C. McCormack,Tero Mustonen,Kaisu Mustonen,Janet A. Nye,Michael Oellermann,Michael Oellermann,Rowan Trebilco,Rowan Trebilco,Ingrid van Putten,Ingrid van Putten,Cecilia Villanueva,Reg Watson,Gretta T. Pecl +24 more
TL;DR: This work describes key drivers related to climate-driven species redistributions that are likely to have a high impact and influence on whether a sustainable future is achievable by 2030 and synthesises examples of such actions as the basis of a strategic approach to tackle this global-scale challenge.
Journal ArticleDOI
The status of climate change adaptation in fisheries management: Policy, legislation and implementation
Journal ArticleDOI
Community-based citizen science projects can support the distributional monitoring of fishes
Joseph D. DiBattista,Katrina M. West,Katrina M. West,Amanda C. Hay,Julian M. Hughes,Ashley M. Fowler,M.A. McGrouther +6 more
Journal ArticleDOI
Resident lobsters dominate food competition with range-shifting lobsters in an ocean warming hotspot
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated how the two species compete for food at current (18°C), future (21°C) and future heatwave (24°C).
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Global imprint of climate change on marine life
Elvira S. Poloczanska,Christopher J. Brown,Christopher J. Brown,William J. Sydeman,Wolfgang Kiessling,Wolfgang Kiessling,David S. Schoeman,David S. Schoeman,Pippa J. Moore,Pippa J. Moore,Keith Brander,John F. Bruno,Lauren B. Buckley,Michael T. Burrows,Carlos M. Duarte,Carlos M. Duarte,Benjamin S. Halpern,Johnna Holding,Carrie V. Kappel,Mary I. O'Connor,John M. Pandolfi,Camille Parmesan,Camille Parmesan,Franklin B. Schwing,Sarah Ann Thompson,Anthony J. Richardson,Anthony J. Richardson +26 more
TL;DR: This article synthesized all available studies of the consistency of marine ecological observations with expectations under climate change This yielded a meta-database of 1,735 marine biological responses for which either regional or global climate change was considered as a driver.
Journal ArticleDOI
Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits
TL;DR: Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and tapping of volunteers to conduct large, coordinated, field experiments as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios
William W. L. Cheung,Vicky W. Y. Lam,Jorge L. Sarmiento,Kelly A. Kearney,Reg Watson,Daniel Pauly +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the global patterns of such impacts by projecting the distributional ranges of a sample of 1066 exploited marine fish and invertebrates for 2050 using a newly developed dynamic bioclimate envelope model.
Journal ArticleDOI
Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene.
Terry P. Hughes,Kristen G. Anderson,Sean R. Connolly,Scott F. Heron,Scott F. Heron,James T. Kerry,Janice M. Lough,Janice M. Lough,Andrew H. Baird,Julia K. Baum,Michael L. Berumen,Tom C. L. Bridge,Tom C. L. Bridge,Danielle C. Claar,C. Mark Eakin,James P. Gilmour,Nicholas A. J. Graham,Nicholas A. J. Graham,Hugo B. Harrison,Jean-Paul A. Hobbs,Andrew S. Hoey,Mia O. Hoogenboom,Ryan J. Lowe,Malcolm T. McCulloch,John M. Pandolfi,Morgan S. Pratchett,Verena Schoepf,Gergely Torda,Gergely Torda,Shaun K. Wilson +29 more
TL;DR: Coral reefs in the present day have less time than in earlier periods to recover from bleaching events, and Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages.
Journal ArticleDOI
The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling
Mary S. Wisz,Julien Pottier,W. Daniel Kissling,Loïc Pellissier,Jonathan Lenoir,Jonathan Lenoir,Christian Damgaard,Carsten F. Dormann,Mads C. Forchhammer,John-Arvid Grytnes,Antoine Guisan,Risto K. Heikkinen,Toke T. Høye,Ingolf Kühn,Miska Luoto,Luigi Maiorano,Marie-Charlotte Nilsson,Signe Normand,Erik Öckinger,Niels Martin Schmidt,Mette Termansen,Allan Timmermann,David A. Wardle,Peter Aastrup,Jens-Christian Svenning +24 more
TL;DR: It is shown that biotic interactions have clearly left their mark on species distributions and realised assemblages of species across all spatial extents, and is called for for accelerated collection of spatially and temporally explicit species data.