Document of bibliographic reference 119465

BibliographicReference record

Type

Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

BibLvlCode

AS

Title

Climate induced increases in species richness of marine fishes

Abstract

Climate change has been predicted to lead to changes in local and regional species richness through species extinctions and latitudinal ranges shifts. Here, we show that species richness of fish in the North Sea, a group of ecological and socio-economical importance, has increased over a 22-year period and that this rise is related to higherwater temperatures. Over eight times more fish species displayed increased distribution ranges in the North Sea (mainly small-sized species of southerly origin) compared with those whose range decreased (primarily large and northerly species). This increase in species richness can be explained from the fact that fish species richness in general decreases with latitude. This observation confirms that the interaction between largescale biogeographical patterns and climate change may lead to increasing species richness at temperate latitudes.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000252929900001

Bibliographic citation

Hiddink, J.G.; ter Hofstede, R. (2008). Climate induced increases in species richness of marine fishes. Glob. Chang. Biol. 14(3): 453-460. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01518.x

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true