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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Global imprint of climate change on marine life
Nature Climate Change, Volume 3, No. 10, Year 2013
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Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations, taxonomic groups and/or biological responses. This has precluded a robust overview of the effect of climate change in the global ocean. Here, we synthesized all available studies of the consistency of marine ecological observations with expectations under climate change. This yielded a meta-database of 1,735 marine biological responses for which either regional or global climate change was considered as a driver. Included were instances of marine taxa responding as expected, in a manner inconsistent with expectations, and taxa demonstrating no response. From this database, 81-83% of all observations for distribution, phenology, community composition, abundance, demography and calcification across taxa and ocean basins were consistent with the expected impacts of climate change. Of the species responding to climate change, rates of distribution shifts were, on average, consistent with those required to track ocean surface temperature changes. Conversely, we did not find a relationship between regional shifts in spring phenology and the seasonality of temperature. Rates of observed shifts in species' distributions and phenology are comparable to, or greater, than those for terrestrial systems. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved .
Authors & Co-Authors
Poloczanska, Elvira S.
Australia, Hobart
Csiro Marine and Atmospheric Research
Brown, Christopher J.
Australia, Hobart
Csiro Marine and Atmospheric Research
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Sydeman, William J.
United States, Petaluma
Farallon Institute
Kiessling, Wolfgang
Germany, Berlin
Museum Für Naturkunde
Germany, Erlangen
Friedrich-alexander-universität Erlangen-nürnberg
Schoeman, David S.
Australia, Sippy Downs
University of the Sunshine Coast
South Africa, Gqeberha
Nelson Mandela University
Moore, Pippa J.
Australia, Perth
Edith Cowan University
United Kingdom, Aberystwyth
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences
Brander, Keith M.
Denmark, Lyngby
Technical University of Denmark
Bruno, John Francis
United States, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Buckley, Lauren B.
United States, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Burrows, Michael T.
United Kingdom, Oban
The Scottish Association for Marine Science
Duarte, Carlos Manuel
Spain, Esporlas
Csic-uib - Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados Imedea
Australia, Perth
The University of Western Australia
Halpern, Benjamin S.
United States, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Holding, Johnna M.
Spain, Esporlas
Csic-uib - Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados Imedea
Kappel, Carrie V.
United States, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
O’Connor, Mary I.
Canada, Vancouver
The University of British Columbia
Pandolfi, John M.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Parmesan, Camille
United States, Austin
The University of Texas at Austin
United Kingdom, Plymouth
University of Plymouth, Marine Institute
Schwing, Franklin B.
United States, Silver Spring
Noaa National Marine Fisheries Service
Thompson, Sarah Ann
United States, Petaluma
Farallon Institute
Richardson, Anthony J.
Australia, Hobart
Csiro Marine and Atmospheric Research
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Statistics
Citations: 1,656
Authors: 20
Affiliations: 19
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/nclimate1958
ISSN:
1758678X
e-ISSN:
17586798
Research Areas
Environmental