Global imprint of climate change on marine life
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +24 more institutions
Abstract
Research that combines all available studies of biological responses to regional and global climate change shows that 81–83% of all observations were consistent with the expected impacts of climate change. These findings were replicated across taxa and oceanic basins. Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations1,2, taxonomic groups2,3,4 and/or biological responses5,6. This has precluded a robust overview of the effect of climate change in the global ocean. Here, we synthesized all available studies of the consistency of marine ecological observations with expectations under climate change. This yielded a meta-database of 1,735 marine…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 69.39
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 28
Authors
20- ESElvira S. PoloczanskaCorresponding
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- CJChristopher J. Brown
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, The University of Queensland, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
- WJWilliam J. Sydeman
Farallon Institute
- WKWolfgang Kiessling
Museum für Naturkunde, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- DSDavid S. Schoeman
Nelson Mandela University, University of the Sunshine Coast
Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Marine life
- Environmental science
- Climatology
- Natural resource economics
- Oceanography
- Environmental resource management
- Economics
- Life below water