Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change

DA Hutchins, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - IPCC AR6 WGII, 2022 - epic.awi.de
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate

SA Henson, BB Cael, SR Allen, S Dutkiewicz - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The future response of marine ecosystem diversity to continued anthropogenic forcing is
poorly constrained. Phytoplankton are a diverse set of organisms that form the base of the …

Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems

DP Tittensor, C Novaglio, CS Harrison… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Projections of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems have revealed long-term
declines in global marine animal biomass and unevenly distributed impacts on fisheries …

CMIP6 simulations with the CMCC Earth system model (CMCC‐ESM2)

T Lovato, D Peano, M Butenschön… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article introduces the second generation CMCC Earth System Model (CMCC‐ESM2)
that extends a number of marine and terrestrial biogeochemical processes with respect to its …