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Elucidating the potential squid habitat responses in the central North Pacific to the recent ENSO flavors

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The effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-mediated environmental changes to marine resources were long recognized; however, species-specific responses were also reported to vary, possibly more so, under the emerging event-to-event diversity of the ENSO conditions. Hence, the objective of this study is to characterize the potential impacts of the ENSO-regulated environmental variability to squid habitat in the central North Pacific under the different ENSO flavors, using habitat models developed from at least a decade of fishery-dependent dataset and environmental parameters. Our findings revealed that the potential squid habitats were largely influenced by ENSO-forced environmental changes during the squid’s spawning and nursery periods, resulting in substantial reduction/enhancement of available habitats in the succeeding summers of Central Pacific El Niño/La Niña, where the latter led to an expansion of favorable spawning and nursery grounds. However, the autumn–winter periods of weaker and short-lived Eastern Pacific El Niño showed elevated potential habitats due to minimal sea surface temperature drop and close proximity of spawning and nursery grounds to optimal feeding environments. The quick, albeit variable, squids’ responses to ENSO flavors accentuate their promising potential as ecological beacons under climate changes, aiding the development of adaptive management strategies for commercially exploited fisheries.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Research on Climate Change Adaptation (RECCA) Project of the Grant-in-Aid from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The authors are also grateful to Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center for providing the squid fishery data and NOAA coast watch for environmental data used in analyses. The authors also thank Cesar L. Villanoy for very helpful discussion on correlation and time series analyses. We are equally grateful to the referees for the constructive comments that significantly improved the contents of this manuscript.

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  1. Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, N21 W11 Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan

    Irene D. Alabia & Sei-Ichi Saitoh

  2. Laboratory of Marine Environment and Resource Sensing, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

    Sei-Ichi Saitoh & Toru Hirawake

  3. Data Research Center for Marine-Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine Earth-Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 3173-25 Showamachi, Kanazawa-ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 236-0001, Japan

    Hiromichi Igarashi & Yoichi Ishikawa

  4. Oceanographic Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan

    Norihisa Usui & Masafumi Kamachi

  5. Graduate School of Science Division of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ward, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    Toshiyuki Awaji

  6. Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center, 4-11-6 Dainitonya-machi, Aomori-shi, Aomori, 030-0113, Japan

    Masaki Seito

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Alabia, I.D., Saitoh, SI., Hirawake, T. et al. Elucidating the potential squid habitat responses in the central North Pacific to the recent ENSO flavors. Hydrobiologia 772, 215–227 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2662-5

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