Major Expansion of Marine Forests in a Warmer Arctic

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Assis, Jorge, Serrão, Ester A, Duarte, Carlos M., Fragkopoulou, Eliza, Krause-Jensen, Dorte
• Other Authors: Marine Science Program, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division, CCMAR, CIMAR, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Marine forests; Macrophytes; Climate change; Paris Agreement; Range shifts; Bia; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/676236; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.850368

Accelerating warming and associated loss of sea ice are expected to promote the expansion of coastal marine forests (macrophytes) along the massive Arctic coastlines. Yet, this region has received much less attention compared to other global oceans. The available future projections of Arctic macroph...