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ArticleNature communications2017

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

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Stephanie A HensonNational Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK.
Claudie BeaulieuOcean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK.
Tatiana IlyinaMax Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr. 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
Jasmin G JohnNOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, 201 Forrestal Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.
Matthew LongClimate and Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1273-2957
Roland SéférianCentre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France/CNRS, 42 Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France.
Jerry TjiputraUni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Box 7803, NO-5020, Bergen, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-4600-2453
Jorge L SarmientoAtmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, 300 Forrestal Road, Sayre Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change is expected to modify ecological responses in the ocean, with the potential for important effects on the ecosystem services provided to humankind. Here we address the question of how rapidly multiple drivers of marine ecosystem change develop in the future ocean. By analysing an ensemble of models we find that, within the next 15 years, the climate change-driven trends in multiple ecosystem drivers emerge from the background of natural variability in 55% of the ocean and propagate rapidly to encompass 86% of the ocean by 2050 under a 'business-as-usual' scenario. However, we also demonstrate that the exposure of marine ecosystems to climate change-induced stress can be drastically reduced via climate mitigation measures; with mitigation, the proportion of ocean susceptible to multiple drivers within the next 15 years is reduced to 34%. Mitigation slows the pace at which multiple drivers emerge, allowing an additional 20 years for adaptation in marine ecological and socio-economic systems alike.

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PMID28267144
PMCPMC5343512

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