Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean
Systematic long-term studies on ecosystem dynamics are largely lacking from the East Antarctic Southern Ocean, although it is well recognized that they are indispensable to identify the ecological impacts and risks of environmental change. Here, we present a framework for establishing a long-term cr...
Published in: | Biogeosciences |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
European Geosciences Union
2022
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/1/bg-19-5313-2022.pdf https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/5313/2022/ |
id |
ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:532573 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive |
op_collection_id |
ftnerc |
language |
English |
description |
Systematic long-term studies on ecosystem dynamics are largely lacking from the East Antarctic Southern Ocean, although it is well recognized that they are indispensable to identify the ecological impacts and risks of environmental change. Here, we present a framework for establishing a long-term cross-disciplinary study on decadal timescales. We argue that the eastern Weddell Sea and the adjacent sea to the east, off Dronning Maud Land, is a particularly well suited area for such a study, since it is based on findings from previous expeditions to this region. Moreover, since climate and environmental change have so far been comparatively muted in this area, as in the eastern Antarctic in general, a systematic long-term study of its environmental and ecological state can provide a baseline of the current situation, which will be important for an assessment of future changes from their very onset, with consistent and comparable time series data underpinning and testing models and their projections. By establishing an Integrated East Antarctic Marine Research (IEAMaR) observatory, long-term changes in ocean dynamics, geochemistry, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions and services will be systematically explored and mapped through regular autonomous and ship-based synoptic surveys. An associated long-term ecological research (LTER) programme, including experimental and modelling work, will allow for studying climate-driven ecosystem changes and interactions with impacts arising from other anthropogenic activities. This integrative approach will provide a level of long-term data availability and ecosystem understanding that are imperative to determine, understand, and project the consequences of climate change and support a sound science-informed management of future conservation efforts in the Southern Ocean. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Gutt, Julian Arndt, Stefanie Barnes, David K.A. Bornemann, Horst Brey, Thomas Eisen, Olaf Griffiths, Huw Haas, Christian Hain, Stefan Hattermann, Tore Held, Christoph Hoppema, Mario Isla, Enrique Janout, Markus Le Bohec, Céline Link, Heike Mark, Felix Christopher Moreau, Sebastien Trimborn, Scarlett van Opzeeland, Ilse Pörtner, Hans-Otto Schaafsma, Fokje Teschke, Katharina Tippenhauer, Sandra Van de Putte, Anton Wege, Mia Zitterbart, Daniel Peipenburg, Dieter |
spellingShingle |
Gutt, Julian Arndt, Stefanie Barnes, David K.A. Bornemann, Horst Brey, Thomas Eisen, Olaf Griffiths, Huw Haas, Christian Hain, Stefan Hattermann, Tore Held, Christoph Hoppema, Mario Isla, Enrique Janout, Markus Le Bohec, Céline Link, Heike Mark, Felix Christopher Moreau, Sebastien Trimborn, Scarlett van Opzeeland, Ilse Pörtner, Hans-Otto Schaafsma, Fokje Teschke, Katharina Tippenhauer, Sandra Van de Putte, Anton Wege, Mia Zitterbart, Daniel Peipenburg, Dieter Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
author_facet |
Gutt, Julian Arndt, Stefanie Barnes, David K.A. Bornemann, Horst Brey, Thomas Eisen, Olaf Griffiths, Huw Haas, Christian Hain, Stefan Hattermann, Tore Held, Christoph Hoppema, Mario Isla, Enrique Janout, Markus Le Bohec, Céline Link, Heike Mark, Felix Christopher Moreau, Sebastien Trimborn, Scarlett van Opzeeland, Ilse Pörtner, Hans-Otto Schaafsma, Fokje Teschke, Katharina Tippenhauer, Sandra Van de Putte, Anton Wege, Mia Zitterbart, Daniel Peipenburg, Dieter |
author_sort |
Gutt, Julian |
title |
Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
title_short |
Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
title_full |
Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
title_fullStr |
Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
title_full_unstemmed |
Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean |
title_sort |
reviews and syntheses: a framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the east antarctic southern ocean |
publisher |
European Geosciences Union |
publishDate |
2022 |
url |
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/1/bg-19-5313-2022.pdf https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/5313/2022/ |
geographic |
Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Weddell Sea |
geographic_facet |
Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Weddell Sea |
genre |
Antarc* Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Sea |
genre_facet |
Antarc* Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Sea |
op_relation |
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/1/bg-19-5313-2022.pdf Gutt, Julian; Arndt, Stefanie; Barnes, David K.A. orcid:0000-0002-9076-7867 Bornemann, Horst; Brey, Thomas; Eisen, Olaf; Griffiths, Huw orcid:0000-0003-1764-223X Haas, Christian; Hain, Stefan; Hattermann, Tore; Held, Christoph; Hoppema, Mario; Isla, Enrique; Janout, Markus; Le Bohec, Céline; Link, Heike; Mark, Felix Christopher; Moreau, Sebastien; Trimborn, Scarlett; van Opzeeland, Ilse; Pörtner, Hans-Otto; Schaafsma, Fokje; Teschke, Katharina; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Van de Putte, Anton; Wege, Mia; Zitterbart, Daniel; Peipenburg, Dieter. 2022 Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean [in special issue: The Weddell Sea and the ocean off Dronning Maud Land: unique oceanographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes – a multi-disciplinary study] Biogeosciences, 19 (22). 5313-5342. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022 <https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022> |
op_rights |
cc_by_4 |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022 |
container_title |
Biogeosciences |
container_volume |
19 |
container_issue |
22 |
container_start_page |
5313 |
op_container_end_page |
5342 |
_version_ |
1787428415531384832 |
spelling |
ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:532573 2024-01-07T09:39:05+01:00 Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean Gutt, Julian Arndt, Stefanie Barnes, David K.A. Bornemann, Horst Brey, Thomas Eisen, Olaf Griffiths, Huw Haas, Christian Hain, Stefan Hattermann, Tore Held, Christoph Hoppema, Mario Isla, Enrique Janout, Markus Le Bohec, Céline Link, Heike Mark, Felix Christopher Moreau, Sebastien Trimborn, Scarlett van Opzeeland, Ilse Pörtner, Hans-Otto Schaafsma, Fokje Teschke, Katharina Tippenhauer, Sandra Van de Putte, Anton Wege, Mia Zitterbart, Daniel Peipenburg, Dieter 2022-11-23 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/1/bg-19-5313-2022.pdf https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/5313/2022/ en eng European Geosciences Union https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532573/1/bg-19-5313-2022.pdf Gutt, Julian; Arndt, Stefanie; Barnes, David K.A. orcid:0000-0002-9076-7867 Bornemann, Horst; Brey, Thomas; Eisen, Olaf; Griffiths, Huw orcid:0000-0003-1764-223X Haas, Christian; Hain, Stefan; Hattermann, Tore; Held, Christoph; Hoppema, Mario; Isla, Enrique; Janout, Markus; Le Bohec, Céline; Link, Heike; Mark, Felix Christopher; Moreau, Sebastien; Trimborn, Scarlett; van Opzeeland, Ilse; Pörtner, Hans-Otto; Schaafsma, Fokje; Teschke, Katharina; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Van de Putte, Anton; Wege, Mia; Zitterbart, Daniel; Peipenburg, Dieter. 2022 Reviews and syntheses: A framework to observe, understand and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean [in special issue: The Weddell Sea and the ocean off Dronning Maud Land: unique oceanographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes – a multi-disciplinary study] Biogeosciences, 19 (22). 5313-5342. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022 <https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022> cc_by_4 Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2022 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5313-2022 2023-12-08T00:03:07Z Systematic long-term studies on ecosystem dynamics are largely lacking from the East Antarctic Southern Ocean, although it is well recognized that they are indispensable to identify the ecological impacts and risks of environmental change. Here, we present a framework for establishing a long-term cross-disciplinary study on decadal timescales. We argue that the eastern Weddell Sea and the adjacent sea to the east, off Dronning Maud Land, is a particularly well suited area for such a study, since it is based on findings from previous expeditions to this region. Moreover, since climate and environmental change have so far been comparatively muted in this area, as in the eastern Antarctic in general, a systematic long-term study of its environmental and ecological state can provide a baseline of the current situation, which will be important for an assessment of future changes from their very onset, with consistent and comparable time series data underpinning and testing models and their projections. By establishing an Integrated East Antarctic Marine Research (IEAMaR) observatory, long-term changes in ocean dynamics, geochemistry, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions and services will be systematically explored and mapped through regular autonomous and ship-based synoptic surveys. An associated long-term ecological research (LTER) programme, including experimental and modelling work, will allow for studying climate-driven ecosystem changes and interactions with impacts arising from other anthropogenic activities. This integrative approach will provide a level of long-term data availability and ecosystem understanding that are imperative to determine, understand, and project the consequences of climate change and support a sound science-informed management of future conservation efforts in the Southern Ocean. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Sea Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Southern Ocean Weddell Weddell Sea Biogeosciences 19 22 5313 5342 |