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Percentage of species stocks that move into, out of, or both into and out of one or more countries' EEZs by 2100 for each RCP.
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The world’s oceans supply food and livelihood to billions of people, yet species’ shifting geographic ranges and changes in productivity arising from climate change are expected to profoundly affect these benefits. We ask how improvements in fishery management can offset the negative consequences of climate change; we find that the answer hinges on...
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... percentage of species stocks that shift across country boundaries by 2100 increases with the severity of the climate projection (Fig. 2). The percentage of individual species that will shift across EEZs ranges from 36% (RCP 2.6) to 81% (RCP 8.5). These shifting stocks comprise between 27.8 and 71.7% of the current global MSY. Under RCPs 6.0 and 8.5, most species that shift across EEZs experience shifts both into new and out of old EEZs (Fig. ...
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... percentage of species stocks that shift across country boundaries by 2100 increases with the severity of the climate projection (Fig. 2). The percentage of individual species that will shift across EEZs ranges from 36% (RCP 2.6) to 81% (RCP 8.5). These shifting stocks comprise between 27.8 and 71.7% of the current global MSY. Under RCPs 6.0 and 8.5, most species that shift across EEZs experience shifts both into new and out of old EEZs (Fig. ...
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