A vulnerability assessment of fish and invertebrates to climate change on the northeast US Continental Shelf (NCEI Accession 0154384)

The data represent two outputs from the Northeast Fisheries Climate Vulnerability assessment. The first are the biological sensitivity and climate exposure scores for each of the 82 species. The second are the estimated effect of climate change on each of the 82 species. Climate change and decadal variability are impacting marine fish and invertebrate species worldwide and these impacts will continue for the foreseeable future. Quantitative approaches have been developed to examine climate impacts on productivity, abundance, and distribution of various marine fish and invertebrate species. However, it is difficult to apply these approaches to large numbers of species owing to the lack of mechanistic understanding sufficient for quantitative analyses, as well as the lack of scientific infrastructure to support these more detailed studies. Vulnerability assessments provide a framework for evaluating climate impacts over a broad range of species with existing information. These methods combine the exposure of a species to a stressor (climate change and decadal variability) and the sensitivity of species to the stressor. These two components are then combined to estimate an overall vulnerability. Quantitative data are used when available, but qualitative information and expert opinion are used when quantitative data is lacking.

Tags: acadian redfish, adult mobility, alewife, american eel, american lobster, american plaice, american shad, anchovies, atlantic cod, atlantic croaker, atlantic hagfish, atlantic halibut, atlantic herring, atlantic mackerel, atlantic menahden, atlantic menhaden, atlantic salmon, atlantic saury, atlantic sea scallop, atlantic sturgeon, atlantic surfclam, atlantic wolffish, barndoor skate, bay scallop, benthic invertebrate, black sea bass, bloodworm, blue crab, blue mussel, blueback herring, bluefish, butterfish, cancer crabs, channeled whelk, cleanrnose skate, clearnose skate, climate change, climate vulnerability assessment, coastal, coastal fish, complexity in reproductive strategy, conger eel, cusk, deep-sea red crab, diadromous, diadromous fish, dispersal of early life stages, dusky shark, early life history survival and settlement requirements, eastern oyster, ecosystem based fisheries management, elasmobranch, expert opinion, exposure factor, fisheries, georges bank, green sea urchin, groundfish, gulf of maine, habitat specificity, haddock, hickory shad, high, horseshoe crab, invertebrates, knobbed whelk, little skate, longfin inshore squid, low, mid-atlantic bight, moderate, monkfish, negative, neutral or postive, northeast us continental shelf, northeastern coasts of the united states, northern kingfish, northern quahog, northern shortfin squid, northern shrimp, ocean acidification, ocean acidification program (oap), ocean carbon and acidification data system (ocads) project, ocean pout, ocean quahog, oceanography, offshore hake, pelagic, pelagic fish and cephalapods, pollock, population growth rate, porbeagle, prey specificity, rainbow smelt, red drum, red hake, rosette skate, sand lances, sand tiger, scup, sensitivity attribute, sensitivity to ocean acidification, sensitivity to temperature, shortnose sturgeon, silver hake, smooth dogfish, smooth skate, softshell clam, southern new england, spanish mackerel, spawning cycle, spiny dogfish, spot, spotted seatrout, stock size/status, striped bass, summer flounder, tautog, thorny skate, tilefish, variability in air temperature, variability in ocean acidification, variability in precipitation, variability in sea surface salinity, variability in sea surface temperature, very high, vulnerability assessment, weakfish, white hake, windowpane, winter flounder, winter skate, witch flounder, yellowtail flounder
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce