Long-Term Changes in the Distributions of Larval and Adult Fish in the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem
Fig 12
Correlation results among methods used to examine change in distribution of adult fish in the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem.
Methods used to examine change in along-shelf distribution of mature adult fishes were correlated for spring to fall as measured in this study (A), spring from this study to Nye et al. [4] (B), spring from this study to Pinsky and Fogarty [49] (C), and fall from this study to Pinsky and Fogarty [49] (D). Our analyses produced a linear slope based on a spatially explicit change statistic. Nye et al. [4] calculated a linear slope from the annual change in the center of biomass in an along-shelf direction for the spring survey. Pinsky and Fogarty [49] calculated a linear slope for the annual change in the center of biomass in a north-south direction averaged across the spring and fall surveys.