Global imprint of climate change on marine life
Kießling W, Poloczanska ES, Brown CJ, Sydeman WJ, Kiessling W, Schoeman DS, Moore PJ, Brander K, Bruno JF, Buckley LB, Burrows MT, Duarte CM, Halpern BS, Holding J, Kappel CV, O'Connor MI, Pandolfi JM, Parmesan C, Schwing F, Thompson SA, Richardson AJ (2013)
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2013
Journal
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Book Volume: 3
Pages Range: 919-925
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1958
Abstract
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 .
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Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung / Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Germany (DE)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Australia (AU)
Farallon Institute
United States (USA) (US)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States (USA) (US)
University of Texas at Austin
United States (USA) (US)
University of Queensland
Australia (AU)
University of British Columbia
Canada (CA)
Spanish National Research Council / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Spain (ES)
Scottish Marine Institute
United Kingdom (GB)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States (USA) (US)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
Edith Cowan University
Australia (AU)
University of the Sunshine Coast
Australia (AU)
Germany (DE)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Australia (AU)
Farallon Institute
United States (USA) (US)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States (USA) (US)
University of Texas at Austin
United States (USA) (US)
University of Queensland
Australia (AU)
University of British Columbia
Canada (CA)
Spanish National Research Council / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Spain (ES)
Scottish Marine Institute
United Kingdom (GB)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States (USA) (US)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
Edith Cowan University
Australia (AU)
University of the Sunshine Coast
Australia (AU)
How to cite
APA:
Kießling, W., Poloczanska, E.S., Brown, C.J., Sydeman, W.J., Kiessling, W., Schoeman, D.S.,... Richardson, A.J. (2013). Global imprint of climate change on marine life. Nature Climate Change, 3, 919-925. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1958
MLA:
Kießling, Wolfgang, et al. "Global imprint of climate change on marine life." Nature Climate Change 3 (2013): 919-925.
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