Major expansion of marine forests in a warmer Arctic

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Assis, Jorge, Serrao, Ester, Duarte, Carlos M., Fragkopoulou, Eliza, Krause-Jensen, Dorte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Marine forests; Macrophytes; Climate change; Paris Agreement; Range shifts; Bia; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/17692; 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...