A warning from the deep

Spoel, S. van der

doi:10.1016/0079-6611(94)90008-6

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“…Although more than 90% of the habitable oceans’ volume lies below 200 m, long‐term studies of biodiversity in slope and deep‐sea regions are rare (Danovaro et al, 2020 ; Howell et al, 2020 ; Levin and Bris, 2015 ). It has often been proposed that the rapidity of species’ responses to climate change decreases with depth because deeper waters are thermally more stable (Levin and Bris, 2015 ; Van der Spoel, 1994 ; Yasuhara et al, 2014 ). However, rapid responses in the abundance of deep‐sea biotas, such as fish, nematodes and amphipods, to changing environmental conditions at the surface indicate that processes such as changes in primary productivity can trigger unexpectedly fast responses in the deep (Danovaro et al, 2004 ; Milligan et al, 2020 ; Soltwedel et al, 2016 ).…”

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Deep demersal fish communities respond rapidly to warming in a frontal region between Arctic and Atlantic waters

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Núñez‐Riboni

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Global Change Biology

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The most prominent impact of climate warming on marine ecosystems are distributional shifts in fish, which influence species interactions and food web organization. For shallow continental shelf seas, this usually implies a poleward shift or movement to deeper waters to retreat in cold water refuges (Dahlke et al., 2018;Fossheim et al., 2015;Pinsky et al., 2013). Although more than 90% of the habitable oceans' volume lies below 200 m, long-term studies of biodiversity in slope and deep-sea regions are rare (Danovaro et al., 2020;Howell et al., 2020;Levin and Bris, 2015). It has often been proposed that the rapidity of species' responses to climate change decreases with depth because deeper waters are thermally more stable (Levin and Bris, 2015;Van der Spoel, 1994;Yasuhara et al., 2014). However, rapid responses in the abundance of deep-sea biotas, such as fish, nematodes and amphipods, to changing environmental conditions at the surface indicate that processes such as changes in primary productivity can trigger unexpectedly fast responses in the deep

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