Current and future biogeography of exploited marine groups under climate change
Reygondeau, G. (2019). Current and future biogeography of exploited marine groups under climate change, in: Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M. et al. Predicting future oceans: Sustainability of ocean and human systems amidst global environmental change. pp. 87-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-817945-1.00009-5 In: Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M.; Cheung, W.W.L.; Ota, Y. (Ed.) (2019). Predicting future oceans: Sustainability of ocean and human systems amidst global environmental change. Elsevier: Amsterdam. ISBN 978-0-12-817945-1. xxvii, 554 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/c2018-0-02416-0, more |
| Abstract | Quantifying species spatial distribution and biodiversity patterns represents one of the pillars of ecology. The ocean and human society are in a closed interaction loop, with the ocean providing benefits such as food provision and humans influencing the natural state of the ocean either by direct pressures such as fisheries or indirect pressures such as modification of climate. Ecosystem services provided by the ocean are structured at local or regional scales by the biodiversity pool of species occurring, which define the trophodynamics of the ecosystem. Therefore the study of species distributions and their interactions allows for the characterization of ecosystem functioning and the quantification of the potential benefits of the ocean to human society. The discipline of biogeography is defined as: “The study of the spatial distributions of organisms, both past and present, understanding all patterns of geographic variation in nature—from genes to entire communities and ecosystems—elements of biological diversity that vary across geographic gradients including those of area, isolation, latitude, depth, and elevation.” |
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