Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Rapid emergence of climate change in environmental drivers of marine ecosystems

  • Stephanie A. Henson,
  • Claudie Beaulieu,
  • Tatiana Ilyina,
  • Jasmin G. John,
  • Matthew Long,
  • Roland Séférian,
  • Jerry Tjiputra,
  • Jorge L. Sarmiento

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14682
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Climate change is expected to alter ocean ecology, and to potentially impact the ecosystem services provided to humankind. Here, the authors address how rapidly multiple factors that affect marine ecosystems are likely to develop in the future ocean and the remedial effects climate mitigation might have.