Organophosphate ester pollution in the oceans

Z Xie, P Wang, X Wang, J Castro-Jiménez… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The large-scale use of organophosphate esters (OPEs) as flame retardants and plasticizers
has led to their prevalence in the environment, with still unknown broader impacts. This …

[HTML][HTML] Fjords as aquatic critical zones (ACZs)

TS Bianchi, S Arndt, WEN Austin, DI Benn… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

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 …

Persistent uncertainties in ocean net primary production climate change projections at regional scales raise challenges for assessing impacts on ecosystem services

A Tagliabue, L Kwiatkowski, L Bopp… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ocean net primary production (NPP) results from CO2 fixation by marine phytoplankton,
catalysing the transfer of organic matter and energy to marine ecosystems, supporting most …

Cross-chapter paper 6: Polar regions

AJ Constable, S Harper, J Dawson, K Holsman… - IPCC AR WGII, 2022 - epic.awi.de
The polar regions, notably the Arctic and maritime Antarctic, are experiencing impacts from
climate change at magnitudes and rates that are among the highest in the world, and will …

Pan-Arctic Ocean primary production constrained by turbulent nitrate fluxes

A Randelhoff, J Holding, M Janout, MK Sejr… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Arctic Ocean primary productivity is limited by light and inorganic nutrients. With sea ice
cover declining in recent decades, nitrate limitation has been speculated to become more …

Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland

L Meire, ML Paulsen, P Meire, S Rysgaard… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is accelerating, with glaciers shifting from marine to
land termination and potential consequences for fjord ecosystems downstream. Monthly …

Transient fertilization of a post-Sturtian Snowball ocean margin with dissolved phosphate by clay minerals

EC Fru, JA Bahri, C Brosson, O Bankole… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine sedimentary rocks deposited across the Neoproterozoic Cryogenian Snowball
interval,~ 720-635 million years ago, suggest that post-Snowball fertilization of shallow …

Enhanced trace element mobilization by Earth's ice sheets

JR Hawkings, ML Skidmore… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Trace elements sustain biological productivity, yet the significance of trace element
mobilization and export in subglacial runoff from ice sheets is poorly constrained at present …

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes using a multi-method approach

P How, A Messerli, E Mätzler, M Santoro… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Ice marginal lakes are a dynamic component of terrestrial meltwater storage at the margin of
the Greenland Ice Sheet. Despite their significance to the sea level budget, local flood …