The timescales of global surface-ocean connectivity
Planktonic communities are shaped through a balance of local evolutionary adaptation and ecological succession driven in large part by migration. The timescales over which these processes operate are still largely unresolved. Here we use Lagrangian particle tracking and network theory to quantify th...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4838858 2023-05-15T17:50:41+02:00 The timescales of global surface-ocean connectivity Jönsson, Bror F. Watson, James R. 2016-04-19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838858/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27093522 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11239 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838858/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27093522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11239 Copyright © 2016, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article Text 2016 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11239 2016-05-08T00:21:26Z Planktonic communities are shaped through a balance of local evolutionary adaptation and ecological succession driven in large part by migration. The timescales over which these processes operate are still largely unresolved. Here we use Lagrangian particle tracking and network theory to quantify the timescale over which surface currents connect different regions of the global ocean. We find that the fastest path between two patches—each randomly located anywhere in the surface ocean—is, on average, less than a decade. These results suggest that marine planktonic communities may keep pace with climate change—increasing temperatures, ocean acidification and changes in stratification over decadal timescales—through the advection of resilient types. Text Ocean acidification PubMed Central (PMC) Nature Communications 7 1 |
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Planktonic communities are shaped through a balance of local evolutionary adaptation and ecological succession driven in large part by migration. The timescales over which these processes operate are still largely unresolved. Here we use Lagrangian particle tracking and network theory to quantify the timescale over which surface currents connect different regions of the global ocean. We find that the fastest path between two patches—each randomly located anywhere in the surface ocean—is, on average, less than a decade. These results suggest that marine planktonic communities may keep pace with climate change—increasing temperatures, ocean acidification and changes in stratification over decadal timescales—through the advection of resilient types. |
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