Climate change impacts on eastern boundary upwelling systems

SJ Bograd, MG Jacox, EL Hazen… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The world's eastern boundary upwelling systems (EBUSs) contribute disproportionately to
global ocean productivity and provide critical ecosystem services to human society. The …

Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

D Breitburg, LA Levin, A Oschlies, M Grégoire… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have
been declining since at least the middle of the 20th century. This oxygen loss, or …

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 …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Projecting shifts in thermal habitat for 686 species on the North American continental shelf

JW Morley, RL Selden, RJ Latour, TL Frölicher… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Recent shifts in the geographic distribution of marine species have been linked to shifts in
preferred thermal habitats. These shifts in distribution have already posed challenges for …

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 …

Manifestation, drivers, and emergence of open ocean deoxygenation

LA Levin - Annual review of marine science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Oxygen loss in the ocean, termed deoxygenation, is a major consequence of climate change
and is exacerbated by other aspects of global change. An average global loss of 2% or more …

Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

AK Sweetman, AR Thurber, CR Smith, LA Levin… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The deep sea encompasses the largest ecosystems on Earth. Although poorly known, deep
seafloor ecosystems provide services that are vitally important to the entire ocean and …

Poleward displacement of coastal upwelling‐favorable winds in the ocean's eastern boundary currents through the 21st century

RR Rykaczewski, JP Dunne… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Upwelling is critical to the biological production, acidification, and deoxygenation of the
ocean's major eastern boundary current ecosystems. A leading conceptual hypothesis …

Impacts of global change on ocean dissolved organic carbon (DOC) cycling

C Lønborg, C Carreira, T Jickells… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is an important player in the functioning of
marine ecosystems. DOC is at the interface between the chemical and the biological worlds …