Global change drives modern plankton communities away from the pre-industrial state
The ocean—the Earth’s largest ecosystem—is increasingly affected by anthropogenic climate change1,2. Large and globally consistent shifts have been detected in species phenology, range extension and community composition in marine ecosystems3,4,5. However, despite evidence for ongoing change, it rem...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:51319 2024-09-15T18:30:56+00:00 Global change drives modern plankton communities away from the pre-industrial state Jonkers, Lukas Hillebrand, Helmut Kucera, Michal 2019-05-22 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51319/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51319/1/Global_change_drives_modern_plankton.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.6eebc44d-3e20-4c3d-b4d6-b0a1d354f91b unknown NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51319/1/Global_change_drives_modern_plankton.pdf Jonkers, L. , Hillebrand, H. and Kucera, M. (2019) Global change drives modern plankton communities away from the pre-industrial state , Nature, 570 , pp. 372-375 . doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1230-3 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1230-3> , hdl:10013/epic.6eebc44d-3e20-4c3d-b4d6-b0a1d354f91b EPIC3Nature, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 570, pp. 372-375, ISSN: 0028-0836 Article isiRev 2019 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1230-3 2024-06-24T04:23:24Z The ocean—the Earth’s largest ecosystem—is increasingly affected by anthropogenic climate change1,2. Large and globally consistent shifts have been detected in species phenology, range extension and community composition in marine ecosystems3,4,5. However, despite evidence for ongoing change, it remains unknown whether marine ecosystems have entered an Anthropocene6 state beyond the natural decadal to centennial variability. This is because most observational time series lack a long-term baseline, and the few time series that extend back into the pre-industrial era have limited spatial coverage7,8. Here we use the unique potential of the sedimentary record of planktonic foraminifera—ubiquitous marine zooplankton—to provide a global pre-industrial baseline for the composition of modern species communities. We use a global compilation of 3,774 seafloor-derived planktonic foraminifera communities of pre-industrial age9 and compare these with communities from sediment-trap time series that have sampled plankton flux since ad 1978 (33 sites, 87 observation years). We find that the Anthropocene assemblages differ from their pre-industrial counterparts in proportion to the historical change in temperature. We observe community changes towards warmer or cooler compositions that are consistent with historical changes in temperature in 85% of the cases. These observations not only confirm the existing evidence for changes in marine zooplankton communities in historical times, but also demonstrate that Anthropocene communities of a globally distributed zooplankton group systematically differ from their unperturbed pre-industrial state. Article in Journal/Newspaper Planktonic foraminifera Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Nature 570 7761 372 375 |
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The ocean—the Earth’s largest ecosystem—is increasingly affected by anthropogenic climate change1,2. Large and globally consistent shifts have been detected in species phenology, range extension and community composition in marine ecosystems3,4,5. However, despite evidence for ongoing change, it remains unknown whether marine ecosystems have entered an Anthropocene6 state beyond the natural decadal to centennial variability. This is because most observational time series lack a long-term baseline, and the few time series that extend back into the pre-industrial era have limited spatial coverage7,8. Here we use the unique potential of the sedimentary record of planktonic foraminifera—ubiquitous marine zooplankton—to provide a global pre-industrial baseline for the composition of modern species communities. We use a global compilation of 3,774 seafloor-derived planktonic foraminifera communities of pre-industrial age9 and compare these with communities from sediment-trap time series that have sampled plankton flux since ad 1978 (33 sites, 87 observation years). We find that the Anthropocene assemblages differ from their pre-industrial counterparts in proportion to the historical change in temperature. We observe community changes towards warmer or cooler compositions that are consistent with historical changes in temperature in 85% of the cases. These observations not only confirm the existing evidence for changes in marine zooplankton communities in historical times, but also demonstrate that Anthropocene communities of a globally distributed zooplankton group systematically differ from their unperturbed pre-industrial state. |
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