Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)

Tropicalization of demersal megafauna in the western South Atlantic since 2013

  • Jose Angel Alvarez Perez,
  • Rodrigo Sant’Ana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00553-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Increases in demersal species with higher temperature preferences in commercial catches landed in Brazil indicate tropicalization of demersal megafauna in the western South Atlantic since 2013, according to species composition and biomass analysis of 29,021 catches between 2000 and 2019.