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Underestimated barrier effects of ocean fronts shape global fishery distribution.
| Τίτλος: | Underestimated barrier effects of ocean fronts shape global fishery distribution. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Xing Q; College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China. qwxing@shou.edu.cn.; Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan. qwxing@shou.edu.cn.; National Distant-water Fisheries Engineering Research Center, Shanghai, China. qwxing@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources (Shanghai Ocean University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China. qwxing@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai, China. qwxing@shou.edu.cn., Gao Z; College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.; Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan., Ito SI; Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan., Yu H; Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China., Liu B; College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.; National Distant-water Fisheries Engineering Research Center, Shanghai, China.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources (Shanghai Ocean University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai, China., Zhang H; East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Shanghai, China., Chen X; College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China. xjchen@shou.edu.cn.; National Distant-water Fisheries Engineering Research Center, Shanghai, China. xjchen@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources (Shanghai Ocean University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China. xjchen@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai, China. xjchen@shou.edu.cn., Yu W; College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China. wyu@shou.edu.cn.; National Distant-water Fisheries Engineering Research Center, Shanghai, China. wyu@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources (Shanghai Ocean University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China. wyu@shou.edu.cn.; Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Oceanic Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai, China. wyu@shou.edu.cn. |
| Πηγή: | Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2026 Mar 28; Vol. 17 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Mar 28. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Nature Pub. Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101528555 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2041-1723 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20411723 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Nat Commun Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: [London] : Nature Pub. Group |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Fisheries*/statistics & numerical data , Fishes*/physiology , Oceans and Seas* , Ecosystem*, Animals ; Temperature |
| Περίληψη: | Marine ecosystems exhibit high spatiotemporal heterogeneity, making it crucial to understand the mechanisms sustaining biological hotspots. Ocean fronts shape local biogeochemical processes and have long been recognized as biological hotspots aggregating organisms from phytoplankton to top predators and attracting fisheries (hotspot effects). However, fronts also exhibit pronounced environmental differences between their two sides (barrier effects), and how species and fishery distributions respond to these effects remains poorly understood. By integrating satellite-based front detection with commercial catch records, fishery-independent surveys, and global fishing datasets, we show that fishery distributions across diverse regions and major commercial stocks worldwide respond strongly to barrier effects, exhibiting 15-70% differences in distribution between the frontal warm and cold zones, driven by species-specific local thermal preferences. In contrast, responses to hotspot effects are generally sporadic with only 5-20% differences between frontal and non-frontal zones, and they emerge only when aggregations on one side of fronts offset avoidance on the other. This offset has led earlier studies to conservatively underestimate front-induced fishery variations by 55-75%. Our findings complement the traditional front-induced hotspot paradigm by clarifying the importance of barrier effects and underscore the need to reassess the role of ocean fronts in marine ecosystems. (© 2026. The Author(s).) |
| Competing Interests: | Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. |
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| Grant Information: | 42506078 National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China); BX20250007 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; 2024M761926 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; 24YF2716700 Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipality) |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260328 Date Completed: 20260713 Latest Revision: 20260813 |
| Update Code: | 20260813 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13194931 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-026-71250-0 |
| PMID: | 41904137 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
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