Chapter 2, Climate change: overview and drivers

• Main Authors: Levin, Lisa, Kenny, Andrew, Le Bris, Nadine, Colaço, Ana, Carreiro Silva, Marina
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Climate Change; POC flux; Deep Ocean; Ecosystem; Ocean Warming; Ocean deoxygenation; Carbonate system changes; Bentho-pelagic coupling; European Union EU; Horizon 2020; Grant Agreement No 679849; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation; SponGES; North Atlantic; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4297689; https://zenodo.org/record/4297689

ABSTRACT The chapter provides a brief introduction to the underlying causes of climate change in the deep ocean, and the mechanisms by which these affect deep-ocean ecosystems (Figure 2). Climate change is interpreted in the broad sense here and incorporates the many changes in ocean environments linked to atmospheric and ocean warming and/ or ocean acidification, including oxygen loss, changes in POC flux to depth, altered hydrodynamics and circulation, as well as bentho-pelagic coupling.