Long-term shifts in the species composition of a coastal fish community
By J. Collie, A. D. Wood, H. Jeffries. 2008
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To study decadal shifts in a coastal nekton community, we analyzed data on 25 fish and invertebrate species collected from 1959 to 2005 by the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography (Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA). This weekly trawl survey samples two locations: inside Narragansett Bay and in Rhode Island Sound. Over four decades, the community has shifted progressively from vertebrates to invertebrates and, especially since 1980, from benthic to pelagic species. Demersal species that declined include winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus), silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis), and red hake (Urophycis chuss); meanwhile warm-water fish (butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus; scup, Stenotomus chrysops) and invertebrates (lobster, crab, squid) increased with time. Total numbers reached a maximum in the 1990s, while mean body size decreased. Taxonomic diversity increased over time, as the community shifted from fish to invertebrates of several phyla. The shifts in species composition...
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- From traits to life‐history strategies: Deconstructing fish community composition across European seas (2017, background): “…temperature is verified by the recent distributional shift of mostly small and short-lived species in response 369 to warming (Perry et al. 2005, Magurran et al. 2015), where these opportunistic seasonal migrants take 370 advantage of newly disturbed conditions in these areas (Collie et al.,2008).”