Marine biodiversity and climate change

• Main Authors: Wernberg, T., Russell, B., Thomsen, M., Connell, S.
• Other Authors: Freedman, B.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Global warming; Human impacts; Ocean acidification; Multiple stressors; Habitat-forming species; Ecosystem engineers; Range-shifts; Direct and indirect effects; Interactions; Thomsen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/84577; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_80

Climate change involves shifts in environmental conditions which will affect the distribution and biological performance of species. Global patterns of marine biodiversity are strongly driven by ocean temperature. Rising ocean temperatures, in combination with other climate changes and human pressur...