ArticleGlobal change biology2020
Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic.
Article in Global change biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 215 citations in OpenAlex.
- Rapid Decreases and Performance Declines in Northeast Pacific Seamount Foundation Species Detected in an Oxygen Minimum Zone.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Microbially mediated carbon utilization by a cold-water coral inhabiting methane seeps.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Contrasts in niche breadth and its drivers between soil microbes and plants in alpine grasslands.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Resistance of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia cornigera to single and combined global change stressors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Global Cold-Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Climate Change Drives Bathymetric Shifts in Taxonomic and Trait Diversity of Deep-Sea Benthic Communities.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Assessing indirect biodiversity conservation benefits of fisheries closures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.PloS one · 2025Article
- Tools and approaches for mapping Marine Animal Forests: A practical overview for researchers and conservationists.Open research Europe · 2025Review
- Cold-water coral mortality under ocean warming is associated with pathogenic bacteria.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Unveiling the suitable habitats and future conservation strategies ofEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Natural warming differentiates communities and increases diversity in deep-sea Ridge Flank Hydrothermal Systems.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Mapping the habitat refugia of Isidella elongata under climate change and trawling impacts to preserve Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Mediterranean.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Global Potential Distribution of Invasive SpeciesInsects · 2024Article
- Putative past, present, and future spatial distributions of deep-sea coral and sponge microbiomes revealed by predictive models.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Expanding our view of the cold-water coral niche and accounting of the ecosystem services of the reef habitat.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Towards a scientific community consensus on designating Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems from imagery.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Predicting the effects of climate change on deep-water coral distribution around New Zealand-Will there be suitable refuges for protection at the end of the 21st century?Global change biology · 2022Article
- Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Article
- Microbial Associations of Abyssal Gorgonians and Anemones (>4,000 m Depth) at the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
59 authors at 20 institutions in 13 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The deep sea plays a critical role in global climate regulation through uptake and storage of heat and carbon dioxide. However, this regulating service causes warming, acidification and deoxygenation of deep waters, leading to decreased food availability at the seafloor. These changes and their projections are likely to affect productivity, biodiversity and distributions of deep-sea fauna, thereby compromising key ecosystem services. Understanding how climate change can lead to shifts in deep-sea species distributions is critically important in developing management measures. We used environmental niche modelling along with the best available species occurrence data and environmental parameters to model habitat suitability for key cold-water coral and commercially important deep-sea fish species under present-day (1951-2000) environmental conditions and to project changes under severe, high emissions future (2081-2100) climate projections (RCP8.5 scenario) for the North Atlantic Ocean. Our models projected a decrease of 28%-100% in suitable habitat for cold-water corals and a shift in suitable habitat for deep-sea fishes of 2.0°-9.9° towards higher latitudes. The largest reductions in suitable habitat were projected for the scleractinian coral Lophelia pertusa and the octocoral Paragorgia arborea, with declines of at least 79% and 99% respectively. We projected the expansion of suitable habitat by 2100 only for the fishes Helicolenus dactylopterus and Sebastes mentella (20%-30%), mostly through northern latitudinal range expansion. Our results projected limited climate refugia locations in the North Atlantic by 2100 for scleractinian corals (30%-42% of present-day suitable habitat), even smaller refugia locations for the octocorals Acanella arbuscula and Acanthogorgia armata (6%-14%), and almost no refugia for P. arborea. Our results emphasize the need to understand how anticipated climate change will affect the distribution of deep-sea species including commercially important fishes and foundation species, and highlight the importance of identifying and preserving climate refugia for a range of area-based planning and management tools.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.