Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6358434 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Global warming effects on seaweed beds are already perceptible. Their geographical distributions greatly depend on water temperatures. To predict future geographical distributions of brown alga, Sargassum horneri, forming large beds in the northwestern Pacific, we referred to future monthly surface water temperatures at about 1.1° of longitude and 0.6° of latitude in February and August in 2050 and 2100 simulated by 12 organizations under an A2 scenario of global warming. The southern limit of S. horneri distribution is expected to keep moving northward such that it may broadly disappear from Honshu Island, the Chinese coast, and Korean Peninsula in 2100, when tropical Sargassum species such as Sargassum tenuifolium may not completely replace S. horneri. Thus, their forests in 2100 do not substitute those of S. horneri in 2000. Fishes using the beds and seaweed rafts consisting of S. horneri in East China Sea suffer these disappearances.
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Authors
Teruhisa Komatsu, Masahiro Fukuda, Atsuko Mikami, Shizuha Mizuno, Attachai Kantachumpoo, Hideaki Tanoue, Michio Kawamiya,