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The study, led by Chih-Hao Hsieh while he was a student at Scripps Oceanography, and who is now at National Taiwan University, is based on data from the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI), a program based at Scripps that has monitored the marine environment of the California Current for nearly 60 years.
Hsieh, Sugihara and their coauthors used the CalCOFI database to decipher the sensitivity of fish habitats in response to climate-driven ocean warming.
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''Open-ocean fishes that were rarely studied due to their low economic values may in fact provide important clues signifying how marine organisms are responding to climate variations,'' said Hsieh, now a professor at National Taiwan University. ''The interactions found between oceanic and shallow water coastal species also imply that anthropogenic disturbances, for example fishing, could have profound indirect effects on other components of the marine ecosystem.''
In addition to Hsieh and Sugihara, coauthors include Hey Jin Kim (Scripps Oceanography and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), William Watson (Southwest Fisheries Science Center) and Emanuele Di Lorenzo (Scripps graduate now at Georgia Institute of Technology).