Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature

J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate
data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple …

The impact of climate change on the world's marine ecosystems

O Hoegh-Guldberg, JF Bruno - Science, 2010 - science.org
Marine ecosystems are centrally important to the biology of the planet, yet a comprehensive
understanding of how anthropogenic climate change is affecting them has been poorly …

Is ocean acidification an open-ocean syndrome? Understanding anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH

CM Duarte, IE Hendriks, TS Moore, YS Olsen… - Estuaries and …, 2013 - Springer
Ocean acidification due to anthropogenic CO 2 emissions is a dominant driver of long-term
changes in pH in the open ocean, raising concern for the future of calcifying organisms …

Projecting coral reef futures under global warming and ocean acidification

JM Pandolfi, SR Connolly, DJ Marshall, AL Cohen - science, 2011 - science.org
Many physiological responses in present-day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted
as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual …

Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

NJ Bennett, J Blythe, S Tyler, NC Ban - Regional Environmental Change, 2016 - Springer
The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus
exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals …

[图书][B] Ecology of marine bivalves: an ecosystem approach

RF Dame, MJ Kenneth - 2011 - library.oapen.org
Bivalves, such as clams and oysters, are species having two-valved shells. In the marine
ecosystem these species play a unique and essential role. This book examines the ecology …

Spatial, temporal and taxonomic variation in coral growth—implications for the structure and function of coral reef ecosystems

MS Pratchett, KD Anderson… - … and Marine Biology …, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Scleractinian (hard) corals are fundamental to the geomorphology, biodiversity, and
structure of coral reef ecosystems (Goreau 1963, Hoegh-Guldberg 2004, Pratchett et al …

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

TP Hughes, C Linares, V Dakos… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Regime shifts from one ecological state to another are often portrayed as sudden, dramatic,
and difficult to reverse. Yet many regime shifts unfold slowly and imperceptibly after a tipping …

Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries

TP Hughes, S Carpenter, J Rockström… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Life on Earth has repeatedly displayed abrupt and massive changes in the past, and there is
no reason to expect that comparable planetary-scale regime shifts will not continue in the …

Resilience to climate change in coastal marine ecosystems

JR Bernhardt, HM Leslie - Annual review of marine science, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Ecological resilience to climate change is a combination of resistance to increasingly
frequent and severe disturbances, capacity for recovery and self-organization, and ability to …