Variations in how climate change will affect different ocean ecosystems, and in the capacity for communities to adapt or respond to such changes mean that some countries will be disproportionately affected. A new index of vulnerability to climate change impacts on fisheries has demonstrated that the ...
The world’s oceans are under threat from the prevalence of heatwaves caused by climate change. Despite this, there is a lack of understanding regarding their impact on seawater oxygen levels - a crucial element in sustaining biological survival. Here, we find that heatwaves can trigger low-oxy...
While activities that do not directly depend on reefs (i.e. reef-adjacent activities such as white sand beaches and sun- bathing) are also expected to be affected by climate change (directly and indirectly through processes such as the wave attenuation role of reefs and coral reefs as a ...
Global climate models (GCMs) predict future conditions at large spatial scales, and these predictions are then often used to parameterize laboratory experiments designed to assess biological and ecological responses to future change. However, nearshore ecosystems are affected by a range of physical ...
This can be achieved through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the protection of marine ecosystems, the development of policies that support affected communities, and the exploration of economic opportunities that arise from the mitigation of climate change. By taking action, we can ensure ...
Finally, 3) ice sheets also react slowly as they re-establish equilibrium conditions to a change in energy balance. Three relevant points to reinforce are: 2. Ocean Monitoring System Development Measuring climate change is a challenging task. Ocean climatic trends, by their nature, are long-term...
As the world's climate changes, ocean warming is getting faster and se a levels are rising more quickly, warns a new report. The report also discusses a relatively new problem appearing in the oceans: heat waves ().The unusually hot water affected animals that live off the coast of Maine...
根据第二段Additionally,the Southern Ocean,a major carbon sink ,absorbs 40% of the oceans' carbon dioxide annually.Warming reduces this absorption,further affected by the flowing of trillions of tonnes of freshwater from melting ice,which alters ocean currents(此外,作为主要的碳汇,南大洋每年吸收海洋...
Nature Climate Changethanks Shuanglin Li and the other, anonymous, reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work. About this article Cite this article Cai, W., Jia, F., Li, S.et al.Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño chan...
Only a few regions will show an unambiguous climate change signal in Chl-a before 2030 and many regions will not show a signal by 2100 (white areas in Fig.9c). We can summarize these results by asking: What is the percentage of the ocean area showing a significant trend at different int...