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A vulnerability assessment of fish and invertebrates to climate change on the northeast US Continental Shelf (NCEI Accession 0154384)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2016-11-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

The data represent two outputs from the Northeast Fisheries Climate Vulnerability assessment. The first are the biological sensitivity and climate exposure scores for each of the 82 species. The second are the estimated effect of climate change on each of the 82 species. Climate change and decadal variability are impacting marine fish and invertebrate species worldwide and these impacts will continue for the foreseeable future. Quantitative approaches have been developed to examine climate impacts on productivity, abundance, and distribution of various marine fish and invertebrate species. However, it is difficult to apply these approaches to large numbers of species owing to the lack of mechanistic understanding sufficient for quantitative analyses, as well as the lack of scientific infrastructure to support these more detailed studies. Vulnerability assessments provide a framework for evaluating climate impacts over a broad range of species with existing information. These methods combine the exposure of a species to a stressor (climate change and decadal variability) and the sensitivity of species to the stressor. These two components are then combined to estimate an overall vulnerability. Quantitative data are used when available, but qualitative information and expert opinion are used when quantitative data is lacking.

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0154384 FISH SPECIES INVERTEBRATE SPECIES biological laboratory experiments NMFS/NEFSC/Narragansett Lab NODC Ocean Acidification Scientific Data Stewardship (OADS) US DOC; NOAA; Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) Gulf of Maine Mid-Atlantic Bight oceanography DOC/NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC > Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS) Project EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH Expert opinion Vulnerability assessment Acadian Redfish Adult Mobility Alewife American Eel American Lobster American Plaice American Shad Anchovies Atlantic Cod Atlantic Croaker Atlantic Hagfish Atlantic Halibut Atlantic Herring Atlantic Mackerel Atlantic Menahden Atlantic Menhaden Atlantic Salmon Atlantic Saury Atlantic Sea Scallop Atlantic Sturgeon Atlantic Surfclam Atlantic Wolffish Barndoor Skate Bay Scallop Benthic Invertebrate Black Sea Bass Bloodworm Blue Crab Blue Mussel Blueback Herring Bluefish Butterfish Cancer Crabs Channeled Whelk Cleanrnose Skate Clearnose Skate Climate Change Climate Vulnerability Assessment Coastal Coastal Fish Complexity in Reproductive Strategy Conger Eel Cusk Deep-sea Red Crab Diadromous Diadromous Fish Dispersal of Early Life Stages Dusky Shark Early Life History Survival and Settlement Requirements Eastern Oyster Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Elasmobranch Expert opinion Exposure Factor Fisheries Green Sea Urchin Groundfish Habitat Specificity Haddock Hickory Shad Horseshoe Crab Invertebrates Knobbed Whelk Little Skate Longfin Inshore Squid Monkfish Northern Kingfish Northern Quahog Northern Shortfin Squid Northern Shrimp Ocean Acidification Ocean Pout Ocean Quahog Offshore Hake Pelagic Pelagic Fish and Cephalapods Pollock Population Growth Rate Porbeagle Prey Specificity Rainbow Smelt Red Drum Red Hake Rosette Skate Sand Lances Sand Tiger Scup Sensitivity Attribute Sensitivity to Ocean Acidification Sensitivity to Temperature Shortnose Sturgeon Silver Hake Smooth Dogfish Smooth Skate Softshell Clam Spanish Mackerel Spawning Cycle Spiny Dogfish Spot Spotted Seatrout Stock Size/Status Striped Bass Summer Flounder Tautog Thorny Skate Tilefish Variability in Air Temperature Variability in Ocean Acidification Variability in Precipitation Variability in Sea Surface Salinity Variability in Sea Surface Temperature Weakfish White Hake Windowpane Winter Flounder Winter Skate Witch Flounder Yellowtail Flounder Low, Moderate, High, Very High, Negative, Neutral or Postive OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE Georges Bank Gulf of Maine Mid-Atlantic Bight Northeast US Continental Shelf Northeastern coasts of the United States Southern New England

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0154384
issued	2016-11-23T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146756", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ocean-carbon-acidification-data-system" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-65.0,35.0,-76.0,45.0
temporal	2014-02-01T00:00:00+00:00/2016-02-29T00:00:00+00:00

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