Fish and Climate Change (FiCli) Database: Informing climate change adaptation and management actions for freshwater fishes

Climate change is an important factor affecting fish globally. This site provides a comprehensive database of peer-reviewed literature available on how climate change has impacted and will continue to impact inland fishes worldwide. These studies have been compiled through an extensive, systematic primary literature review to identify English-language, peer-reviewed journal publications with projected and documented examples of climate change impacts on inland fishes globally. From this standardized database of existing literature, we can examine global patterns in climate change impacts on inland fish. Following a decision path based on knowledge of how climate has been documented to affect fish biology in five main response categories (phenology, distribution, demographics, assemblage dynamics, evolutionary processes), we can explore climate change responses across taxa, functional groups, and geographic regions. We can use the relationships established for studied species and populations to predict climate vulnerability for understudied species and populations. Additionally, managers and biologists can use these results to inform management strategies and adaptation approaches.