Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

YJ Shin, GF Midgley, ERM Archer, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?

P Smith, A Arneth, DKA Barnes, K Ichii… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A multitude of actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified
ecosystems can have co‐benefits for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
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 …

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 …

Future Southern Ocean warming linked to projected ENSO variability

G Wang, W Cai, A Santoso, L Wu, JC Fyfe… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean is a primary heat sink that buffers atmospheric warming and
has warmed substantially, accounting for an outsized portion of global warming-induced …

Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats

EL Cavan, N Mackay, SL Hill, A Atkinson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The carbon sequestration potential of open-ocean pelagic ecosystems is vastly under-
reported compared to coastal vegetation 'blue carbon'systems. Here we show that just a …

Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services

NS Steiner, J Bowman, K Campbell, M Chierici… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that
the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems …

Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

KC Bierlich, J Hewitt, RS Schick, L Pallin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging
grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding grounds. Body …

Status, change, and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean

NM Johnston, EJ Murphy, A Atkinson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the Southern Ocean, several zooplankton taxonomic groups, euphausiids, copepods,
salps and pteropods, are notable because of their biomass and abundance and their roles …

Pelagic ciliate (Ciliophora) communities in the Southern Ocean: bioindicator to water mass, habitat suitability classification and potential response to global warming

C Wang, X Wang, Y Wei, G Guo, H Li, A Wan… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the pelagic ciliate (microzooplankton) play important role in carbon flux of marine
ecosystems, their ecological function, habitat suitability classification and response to global …