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Data from: Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5°C global warming target Cheung, William W. L.; Reygondeau, Gabriel; Froelicher, Thomas L.

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Translating the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial level into impact-related targets facilitates communication of the benefits of mitigating climate change to policy-makers and stakeholders. Developing ecologically relevant impact-related targets for marine ecosystem services, such as fisheries, is an important step. Here, we use maximum catch potential and species turnover as climate-risk indicators for fisheries. We project that potential catches will decrease by more than 3 million metric tons per degree Celsius of warming. Species turnover is more than halved when warming is lowered from 3.5° to 1.5°C above the preindustrial level. Regionally, changes in maximum catch potential and species turnover vary across ecosystems, with the biggest risk reduction in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions when the Paris Agreement target is achieved.
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Title	Data from: Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5°C global warming target
Creator	Cheung, William W. L.; Reygondeau, Gabriel; Froelicher, Thomas L.
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract Translating the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial level into impact-related targets facilitates communication of the benefits of mitigating climate change to policy-makers and stakeholders. Developing ecologically relevant impact-related targets for marine ecosystem services, such as fisheries, is an important step. Here, we use maximum catch potential and species turnover as climate-risk indicators for fisheries. We project that potential catches will decrease by more than 3 million metric tons per degree Celsius of warming. Species turnover is more than halved when warming is lowered from 3.5° to 1.5°C above the preindustrial level. Regionally, changes in maximum catch potential and species turnover vary across ecosystems, with the biggest risk reduction in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions when the Paris Agreement target is achieved.; Usage notes Data for fig. 1 - 4
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/aniBx9fH2RjDVXcgSObr_MY_gOaFwjxjb7SSUAnSou8</p> Storage size: 1476881 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-24
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397558
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/5LYXHW
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/5LYXHW; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pq6p2
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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