In recent years, the use of ecological niche models (ENMs) and species distribution models
(SDMs) to explore the patterns and processes behind observed distribution of species has …

Marine mammals are impacted by many anthropogenic activities and mitigating these
impacts requires knowledge about the geographic occurrence of threats. Here, we …

Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate
system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined over 30%, and all …

Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …

Abstract Changes in temperature, oxygen content and other ocean biogeochemical
properties directly affect the ecophysiology of marine water-breathing organisms,,. Previous …

Although extinctions due to climate change are still uncommon, they might surpass those
caused by habitat loss or overexploitation over the next few decades. Among marine …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are important tools to explore the effects of future global
changes in biodiversity. Previous studies show that variability is introduced into projected …

Climate change impacts on vertebrates have consequences for marine ecosystem structures
and services. We review marine fish, mammal, turtle, and seabird responses to climate …

The paradigm for the latitudinal gradient in species richness is that it is unimodal with a
tropical peak. For 27 published studies, and global datasets of 65 000 recent and 50 000 …