{"id":7706,"date":"2024-12-06T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:24:38","slug":"changes-in-functioning-of-the-largest-coastal-north-sea-flatfish-nursery-the-wadden-sea-over-the-past-half-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/?p=7706","title":{"rendered":"Changes in functioning of the largest coastal North Sea flatfish nursery, the Wadden Sea, over the past half century."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Find this article in link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/362263364_Changes_in_functioning_of_the_largest_coastal_North_Sea_flatfish_nursery_the_Wadden_Sea_over_the_past_half_century\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/362263364_Changes_in_functioning_of_the_largest_coastal_North_Sea_flatfish_nursery_the_Wadden_Sea_over_the_past_half_century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ResearchGate article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international Wadden Sea is an important flatfish nursery. Information from the<br \/>\nDutch Wadden Sea indicates that the flatfish nursery function of the area has been affected during<br \/>\nthe last decades. Increased seawater temperature has affected settling, habitat suitability for and<br \/>\ngrowth performance of the various flatfish species. Settling of plaice, flounder and to a lesser<br \/>\nextent sole larvae occurs earlier nowadays. In the 1960s, 0-, I-, II- and III-group plaice were present,<br \/>\nbut since 2000, II-group has disappeared and densities of I-group have decreased. For juvenile<br \/>\nflounder, II-group almost disappeared, and for dab, a decline in densities of all age groups<br \/>\nwas observed from the 1990s onwards. Summer temperatures exceed the optimum for the coldwater<br \/>\nspecies (plaice, flounder and dab) with increasing frequency, level and duration. Only for 0-<br \/>\ngroup sole, the period with optimal growth conditions has become longer and has resulted in<br \/>\nincreased growth. Mortality rates in 0-group plaice have increased, coinciding with an increase in<br \/>\nwater temperatures and an increase in the abundance of predators. The decrease in density of<br \/>\njuvenile plaice and dab in the Wadden Sea has not affected recruitment to North Sea stocks, suggesting<br \/>\nthat other areas have taken over part of the nursery function. The predicted increase in<br \/>\nseawater temperature in the next decades will continue to improve the conditions for sole. The<br \/>\ntemperature tolerance of plaice and dab and to a lesser extent flounder will further reduce their<br \/>\nscope for growth and may ultimately result in their disappearance from the Wadden Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinesites.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}