Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans
Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of marine life to recent climate change across ocean regions, from tropical seas to polar oceans. We consider observed chang...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:411600 2023-05-15T17:35:25+02:00 Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans Poloczanska, Elvira S. Burrows, Michael T. Brown, Christopher J. Molinos, Jorge Garcia Halpern, Benjamin S. Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove Kappel, Carrie Vanessa Moore, Pippa Richardson, Anthony Schoeman, David Sydeman, David 2016-05-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:411600 eng eng Frontiers Research Foundation doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00062 issn:2296-7745 orcid:0000-0001-7510-6713 orcid:0000-0002-9289-7366 NE/J024082/1 NE/J021938/1 NE/J022446/1 NE/H017151/1 Climate change Range shifts Phenology Ocean acidification Demography Abundance 1104 Aquatic Science 1910 Oceanography 2212 Ocean Engineering 2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2306 Global and Planetary Change 2312 Water Science and Technology Journal Article 2016 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00062 2020-12-29T00:20:38Z Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of marine life to recent climate change across ocean regions, from tropical seas to polar oceans. We consider observed changes in calcification rates, demography, abundance, distribution, and phenology of marine species. We draw on a database of observed climate change impacts on marine species, supplemented with evidence in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We discuss factors that limit or facilitate species' responses, such as fishing pressure, the availability of prey, habitat, light and other resources, and dispersal by ocean currents. We find that general trends in species' responses are consistent with expectations from climate change, including shifts in distribution to higher latitudes and to deeper locations, advances in spring phenology, declines in calcification, and increases in the abundance of warm-water species. The volume and type of evidence associated with species responses to climate change is variable across ocean regions and taxonomic groups, with predominance of evidence derived from the heavily-studied north Atlantic Ocean. Most investigations of the impact of climate change being associated with the impacts of changing temperature, with few observations of effects of changing oxygen, wave climate, precipitation (coastal waters), or ocean acidification. Observations of species responses that have been linked to anthropogenic climate change are widespread, but are still lacking for some taxonomic groups (e.g., phytoplankton, benthic invertebrates, marine mammals). Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Ocean acidification The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Frontiers in Marine Science 3 |
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Climate change Range shifts Phenology Ocean acidification Demography Abundance 1104 Aquatic Science 1910 Oceanography 2212 Ocean Engineering 2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2306 Global and Planetary Change 2312 Water Science and Technology Poloczanska, Elvira S. Burrows, Michael T. Brown, Christopher J. Molinos, Jorge Garcia Halpern, Benjamin S. Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove Kappel, Carrie Vanessa Moore, Pippa Richardson, Anthony Schoeman, David Sydeman, David Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of marine life to recent climate change across ocean regions, from tropical seas to polar oceans. We consider observed changes in calcification rates, demography, abundance, distribution, and phenology of marine species. We draw on a database of observed climate change impacts on marine species, supplemented with evidence in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We discuss factors that limit or facilitate species' responses, such as fishing pressure, the availability of prey, habitat, light and other resources, and dispersal by ocean currents. We find that general trends in species' responses are consistent with expectations from climate change, including shifts in distribution to higher latitudes and to deeper locations, advances in spring phenology, declines in calcification, and increases in the abundance of warm-water species. The volume and type of evidence associated with species responses to climate change is variable across ocean regions and taxonomic groups, with predominance of evidence derived from the heavily-studied north Atlantic Ocean. Most investigations of the impact of climate change being associated with the impacts of changing temperature, with few observations of effects of changing oxygen, wave climate, precipitation (coastal waters), or ocean acidification. Observations of species responses that have been linked to anthropogenic climate change are widespread, but are still lacking for some taxonomic groups (e.g., phytoplankton, benthic invertebrates, marine mammals). |
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Poloczanska, Elvira S. Burrows, Michael T. Brown, Christopher J. Molinos, Jorge Garcia Halpern, Benjamin S. Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove Kappel, Carrie Vanessa Moore, Pippa Richardson, Anthony Schoeman, David Sydeman, David |
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Poloczanska, Elvira S. Burrows, Michael T. Brown, Christopher J. Molinos, Jorge Garcia Halpern, Benjamin S. Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove Kappel, Carrie Vanessa Moore, Pippa Richardson, Anthony Schoeman, David Sydeman, David |
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Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans |
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North Atlantic Ocean acidification |
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