Human activities have substantially changed the world’s oceans in recent decades, altering marine food webs, habitats and biogeochemical processes. Cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopuses) have a unique set of biological traits, including rapid growth, short lifespans and strong life-history plasticity, allowing them to adapt quickly to changing environmental conditions. There has been growing speculation that cephalopod populations are proliferating in response to a changing environment, a perception fuelled by increasing trends in cephalopod fisheries catch. To investigate long-term trends in cephalopod abundance, we assembled global time-series of cephalopod catch rates (catch per unit of fishing or sampling effort).
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/global-proliferation-cephalopods
[2] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(16)30319-0?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982216303190%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/zo%C3%AB-doubleday
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/thomas-aa-prowse
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alexander-arkhipkin-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/current-biology
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oceans-and-seas
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/marine-life
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/marine-research
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/marine-fisheries
