Fish scale deposition rates and export production from 1860 to 2005 AD off Peru

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The Humboldt Current System (HCS) has the highest production of forage fish in the world, although it is highly variable and the future of the primary component, anchovy, is uncertain in the context of global warming. Paradigms based on late 20th century observations suggest that large-scale forcing controls decadal-scale fluctuations of anchovy and sardine across different boundary currents of the Pacific. We develop records of anchovy and sardine fluctuations since 1860 AD using fish scales from multiple sites containing laminated sediments and compare them with Pacific basin-scale and regional indices of ocean climate variability. Our records reveal two main anchovy and sardine phases with a timescale that is not consistent with previously proposed periodicities. Rather, the regime shifts in the HCS are related to 3D habitat changes driven by changes in upwelling intensity from both regional and large-scale forcing. Moreover, we show that a long-term increase in coastal upwelling translates via a bottom-up mechanism to top predators suggesting that the warming climate, at least up to the start of the 21st century, was favorable for fishery productivity in the HCS.

Supplement to: Salvatteci, Renato; Field, David; Gutièrrez, Dimitri; Baumgartner, Tim; Ferreira, Leonardo V; Ortlieb, Luc; Sifeddine, Abdelfettah; Grados, Carmen; Bertrand, Arnaud (2018): Multifarious anchovy and sardine regimes in the Humboldt Current System during the last 150 years. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1055-1068

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888404
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13991
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.888404
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Creator Salvatteci, Renato ORCID logo; Field, David; Gutièrrez, Dimitri; Baumgartner, Tim; Ferreira, Leonardo V; Ortlieb, Luc; Sifeddine, Abdelfettah ORCID logo; Grados, Carmen; Bertrand, Arnaud (ORCID: 0000-0003-4723-179X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 27542298 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/27542298 Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 4 datasets
Discipline Biogeochemistry; Biospheric Sciences; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-76.502W, -14.132S, -76.000E, -12.000N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1860-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z