Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

GB Bonan, SC Doney - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Earth system models (ESMs) simulate physical, chemical, and biological
processes that underlie climate and are the most complex in a hierarchy of models of Earth's …

[HTML][HTML] Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans

ES Poloczanska, MT Burrows, CJ Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming

A Atkinson, SL Hill, EA Pakhomov, V Siegel… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
High-latitude ecosystems are among the fastest warming on the planet. Polar species may
be sensitive to warming and ice loss, but data are scarce and evidence is conflicting,–. Here …

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

MA Hindell, RR Reisinger, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate
change,. Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Changing biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem implications

SF Henley, EL Cavan, SE Fawcett, R Kerr… - Frontiers in marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in regulating global climate as a major sink for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and in global ocean biogeochemistry by supplying …

[HTML][HTML] Southern Ocean phytoplankton in a changing climate

SL Deppeler, AT Davidson - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Phytoplankton are the base of the Antarctic food web, sustain the wealth and diversity of life
for which Antarctica is renowned, and play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles that …

Antarctic futures: an assessment of climate-driven changes in ecosystem structure, function, and service provisioning in the Southern Ocean

AD Rogers, BAV Frinault, DKA Barnes… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we analyze the impacts of climate change on Antarctic marine ecosystems.
Observations demonstrate large-scale changes in the physical variables and circulation of …

Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate

CC Chapman, MA Lea, A Meyer, JB Sallée… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean is a critical component of the global climate system and an
important ecoregion that contains a diverse range of interdependent flora and fauna. It also …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica

L Armbrecht, ME Weber, ME Raymo, VL Peck… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Antarctica is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change on Earth and studying the
past and present responses of this polar marine ecosystem to environmental change is a …