articleBiogeosciencesOct 2, 2013GOLD OA

Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models

LBLaurent BoppLRLaure ResplandyJCJames C. OrrSCScott C. DoneyJPJohn P. Dunne

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines · +12 more institutions

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Abstract

Abstract. Ocean ecosystems are increasingly stressed by human-induced changes of their physical, chemical and biological environment. Among these changes, warming, acidification, deoxygenation and changes in primary productivity by marine phytoplankton can be considered as four of the major stressors of open ocean ecosystems. Due to rising atmospheric CO2 in the coming decades, these changes will be amplified. Here, we use the most recent simulations performed in the framework of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 to assess how these stressors may evolve over the course of the 21st century. The 10 Earth system models used here project similar trends in ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation and…

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  • Environmental science
  • Marine ecosystem
  • Coupled model intercomparison project
  • Representative Concentration Pathways
  • Effects of global warming on oceans
  • Ocean acidification
  • Phytoplankton
  • Ecosystem
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life below water
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