Marine communities do not follow the paradigm of increasing similarity through time
01.04.2026
In this article in Plos Climate, the FISHGLOB working group look at how the majority of demersal marine fish communities do not follow the global homogenization paradigm common in other realms. Researchers assessed patterns of homogenization or its converse (differentiation) across more than 175,000 samples of 2,006 demersal fish species from 34 regions spanning six decades and 20% of the planet’s continental shelf area.
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000659
In this article in Plos Climate, the FISHGLOB working group look at how the majority of demersal marine fish communities do not follow the global homogenization paradigm common in other realms. Researchers assessed patterns of homogenization or its converse (differentiation) across more than 175,000 samples of 2,006 demersal fish species from 34 regions spanning six decades and 20% of the planet’s continental shelf area.
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000659