Abstract
Available evidence of recent climate-induced physical and chemical changes in the oceans is summarized, including changes in sea temperatures, nutrient supply, mixing and circulation, trace element supply, acidification, and sea-level rise. The biological responses in the marine environment to these documented physical changes are then presented by trophic level. Our ability to project ecosystem responses to likely future global change is discussed, including numerous examples of existing projections for several regions of the world's oceans. This chapter concludes with a discussion of a vision of the next steps that are needed to develop better models capable of improving our projections of ecosystem responses to global change.
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Marine Ecosystems and Global Change |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191721939 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199558025 |
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| State | Published - May 1 2010 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Keywords
- Climate effects
- Ecosystem dynamics
- Ecosystem structure
- End-to-end models
- Future projection
- Global change
- Interdisciplinarity
- Ocean ecosystem response
- Uncertainty