Natural and Anthropogenic Factors That Affect Marine Fisheries Resources
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 1265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fisheries biology; stock assessment; demersal resources; fisheries management; ecosystem-based fisheries
Interests: benthos; biodiversity; demersal species; fisheries biology; marine biology; stock assessment; sustainable fishery; geographic information systems
Interests: fisheries biology; stock assessment; demersal species; biological surveys; histology
Interests: biodiversity; ichthyoplankton; trophic ecology; reproductive biology; cephalopods; alien species
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable fishery management needs the knowledge of marine stocks in a changing ocean ecosystem under the pressure of global change to improve. In recent decades, keeping the oceans healthy has been increasingly difficult due to both anthropogenic impacts and natural alterations that affect the marine environment.
Climate change, through long-term temperature increases and a higher frequency of short-term extreme events, is undoubtedly affecting the biology and ecology of the organisms in the sea. The most visible changes affect the life cycle, reproductive efforts, and demography, but generally result from subtle adaptive responses, such as physiological adjustments and micro-evolutionary processes. The main consequences of warming are a simultaneous increase in the abundance of thermophilic and thermo-tolerant species and the disappearance or rarefaction of “cold” steno-thermal species.
Another main aspect of climate change is ocean acidification. It may lead to changes in the relative species composition at a given trophic level, affecting the overall productivity. Possible effects at the organism level include reduced growth and reproductive output, increased predation and mortality, alteration in feeding rates and behavior, and reduced thermal tolerance.
Another interesting topic is the relationship between the productivity of fishery target species and biodiversity, and their interactions in space. From a general point of view, the loss of biodiversity is related to a diminished capacity of the oceans to provide food, to maintain a high environmental quality, and to oppose perturbations.
Original manuscripts, including both research papers and review articles that address all biological and ecological aspects of marine species related to fisheries, are invited to be considered for publication in this Special Issue. In particular, the aims of this Special Issue include, but are not restricted to, the evaluation of the effects of natural and anthropic changes in marine ecosystems such as global warming, seawater temperature increases, ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss on species ecology.
Dr. Paola Rinelli
Dr. Adriana Profeta
Dr. Anna Perdichizzi
Dr. Daniela Giordano
Guest Editors
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