40 years of changes in sea surface temperature along the Western Iberian Coast

B Biguino, C Antunes, L Lamas, LJ Jenkins… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is causing mean sea surface temperatures (SST) to increase worldwide.
However, this increase has not been temporally or spatially uniform, with variations …

European anchovy's abundance, more affected by climatic conditions than fishing activities in the northwest African waters

R Kindong, D Han, NA Pandong, O Sarr, F Wu… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The marine waters off the coast of northwest Africa are known for being highly productive
upwelling regions in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. The present study evaluated the combined …

Anomalous ocean currents and European anchovy dispersal in the Iberian ecosystem

A Teles-Machado, SM Plecha, A Peliz… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2024 - int-res.com
Unlike other upwelling areas where sardine and anchovy species dominate the pelagic
ecosystems, the Western Iberian ecosystem has been consistently dominated by European …

Anchovy on the rise: Investigating environmental drivers of recruitment strength in the northern Canary Current

A Ferreira, AC Brito, JL Costa, V Brotas… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Since the mid-2010s, the abundance and recruitment of the European anchovy Engraulis
encrasicolus has significantly increased off Western Iberia, leading to a 5-fold increase in …

Distribution and CPUE standardization of European Pilchard (Sardina Pilchardus) in the Northwest African upwelling waters under varying climatic conditions

A Annan, R Kindong, O Sarr, S Tian - Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), also known as sardine, is one of the
important small pelagic species in terms of biomass and commercial interest in its areas of …

Inversions Dominate Evolution in the Highly Admixed European Sardine (Sardina pilchardus)

SJ Sabatino, MP Cabezas, P Pereira, S Garrido… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Inversions can play key roles in the genetic architecture of adaptation, but the scale of their
effects across different species remains poorly understood. Here, we use whole-genome …

Impact of Drought and Wildfires in Recent Trends of Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins in Cockles from Northwest Portugal and Its Similarities with Sardine Stock Trends in the …

P Vale - Estuaries and Coasts, 2023 - Springer
In Portugal, high levels of diarrhetic shellfish toxins (DSTs) originating from Dinophysis spp.
are accumulated in bivalves, mainly on the northwest coast (NWC). The occurrence of DSTs …