The future of the oceans past
Major macroevolutionary events in the history of the oceans are linked to changes in oceanographic conditions and environments on regional to global scales. Even small changes in climate and productivity, such as those that occurred after the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, caused major changes in Ca...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2982006 2023-05-15T17:50:08+02:00 The future of the oceans past Jackson, Jeremy B. C. 2010-11-27 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982006 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20980323 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0278 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982006 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20980323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0278 © 2010 The Royal Society Articles Text 2010 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0278 2013-09-03T07:31:58Z Major macroevolutionary events in the history of the oceans are linked to changes in oceanographic conditions and environments on regional to global scales. Even small changes in climate and productivity, such as those that occurred after the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, caused major changes in Caribbean coastal ecosystems and mass extinctions of major taxa. In contrast, massive influxes of carbon at the end of the Palaeocene caused intense global warming, ocean acidification, mass extinction throughout the deep sea and the worldwide disappearance of coral reefs. Today, overfishing, pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are causing comparably great changes to ocean environments and ecosystems. Some of these changes are potentially reversible on very short time scales, but warming and ocean acidification will intensify before they decline even with immediate reduction in emissions. There is an urgent need for immediate and decisive conservation action. Otherwise, another great mass extinction affecting all ocean ecosystems and comparable to the upheavals of the geological past appears inevitable. Text Ocean acidification PubMed Central (PMC) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 1558 3765 3778 |
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Major macroevolutionary events in the history of the oceans are linked to changes in oceanographic conditions and environments on regional to global scales. Even small changes in climate and productivity, such as those that occurred after the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, caused major changes in Caribbean coastal ecosystems and mass extinctions of major taxa. In contrast, massive influxes of carbon at the end of the Palaeocene caused intense global warming, ocean acidification, mass extinction throughout the deep sea and the worldwide disappearance of coral reefs. Today, overfishing, pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are causing comparably great changes to ocean environments and ecosystems. Some of these changes are potentially reversible on very short time scales, but warming and ocean acidification will intensify before they decline even with immediate reduction in emissions. There is an urgent need for immediate and decisive conservation action. Otherwise, another great mass extinction affecting all ocean ecosystems and comparable to the upheavals of the geological past appears inevitable. |
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