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Estuarine fish communities respond to climate variability over both river and ocean basins

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, June 2015
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Title
Estuarine fish communities respond to climate variability over both river and ocean basins
Published in
Global Change Biology, June 2015
DOI 10.1111/gcb.12969
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Frederick Feyrer, James E Cloern, Larry R Brown, Maxfield A Fish, Kathryn A Hieb, Randall D Baxter

Abstract

Estuaries are dynamic environments at the land-sea interface that are strongly affected by inter-annual climate variability. Ocean-atmosphere processes propagate into estuaries from the sea and atmospheric processes over land propagate into estuaries from watersheds. We examined the effects of these two separate climate-driven processes on pelagic and demersal fish community structure along the salinity gradient in the San Francisco Estuary, California USA. A 33-year data set (1980-2012) on pelagic and demersal fishes spanning the freshwater to marine regions of the estuary suggested the existence of five estuarine salinity fish guilds: limnetic (salinity = 0-1), oligohaline (salinity = 1-12), mesohaline (salinity = 6-19), polyhaline (salinity = 19-28) and euhaline (salinity = 29-32). Climatic effects propagating from the adjacent Pacific Ocean, indexed by the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO), affected demersal and pelagic fish community structure in the euhaline and polyhaline guilds. Climatic effects propagating over land, indexed as freshwater outflow from the watershed (OUT), affected demersal and pelagic fish community structure in the oligohaline, mesohaline, polyhaline, and euhaline guilds. The effects of OUT propagated further down the estuary salinity gradient than the effects of NPGO propagated up the estuary salinity gradient, exemplifying the role of variable freshwater outflow as an important driver of biotic communities in river-dominated estuaries. These results illustrate how unique sources of climate variability interact to drive biotic communities and, therefore, that climate change is likely to be an important driver in shaping the future trajectory of biotic communities in estuaries and other transitional habitats. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 129 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 15%
Student > Master 20 15%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Other 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 26 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 47 36%
Environmental Science 30 23%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 4%
Engineering 5 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 30 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2016.
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#5,538,221
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#3,965
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#58,033
of 239,950 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Global Change Biology
#39
of 79 outputs
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