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SUBMITTER: Genner MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1691641 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20040301 1539
Climatic change has been implicated as the cause of abundance fluctuations in marine fish populations worldwide, but the effects on whole communities are poorly understood. We examined the effects of regional climatic change on two fish assemblages using independent datasets from inshore marine (English Channel, 1913-2002) and estuarine environments (Bristol Channel, 1981-2001). Our results show that climatic change has had dramatic effects on community composition. Each assemblage contained a s ...[more]