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Using natural analogues to investigate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on Northern ecosystems
- Source :
- ICES Journal of Marine Science. 75:2299-2311
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018.
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Abstract
- Northern oceans are in a state of rapid transition. Still, our knowledge of the likely effects of climate change and ocean acidification on key species in the food web, functionally important habitats and the structure of Arctic and sub-Arctic ecosystems is limited and based mainly on short-term laboratory studies on single species. This review discusses how tropical and temperate natural analogues of carbonate chemistry drivers, such as CO2 vents, have been used to further our knowledge of the sensitivity of biological systems to predicted climate change, and thus assess the capacity of different species to show long-term acclimation and adaptation to elevated levels of pCO2. Natural analogues have also provided the means to scale-up from single-species responses to community and ecosystem level responses. However, to date the application of such approaches is limited in high latitude systems. A range of Arctic and sub-Arctic sites, including CO2 vents, methane cold seeps, estuaries, up-welling areas, and polar fronts, that encompass gradients of pH, carbonate saturation state, and alkalinity, are suggested for future high latitude, in-situ ocean acidification research. It is recommended that combinations of monitoring of the chemical oceanography, observational, and experimental (in situ and laboratory) studies of organisms around these natural analogues be used to attain better predictions of the impacts of ocean acidification and climate change on high latitude species and ecosystems.
- Subjects :
- adaptation, calcium carbonate saturation, community, observational studies, pH, polar
Settore BIO/07 - Ecologia
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Ocean acidification
Aquatic Science
Oceanography
01 natural sciences
Natural (archaeology)
Effects of global warming
Environmental science
Ecosystem
Adaptation
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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- ISSN :
- 10959289 and 10543139
- Volume :
- 75
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....16e2e42d628e2b3c6f10acf140002a64