TY - JOUR
T1 - Global imprint of climate change on marine life
AU - Poloczanska, Elvira S.
AU - Brown, Christopher J.
AU - Sydeman, William J.
AU - Kiessling, Wolfgang
AU - Schoeman, David S.
AU - Moore, Pippa J.
AU - Brander, Keith
AU - Bruno, John F.
AU - Buckley, Lauren B.
AU - Burrows, Michael T.
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Halpern, Benjamin S.
AU - Holding, Johnna
AU - Kappel, Carrie V.
AU - O¿Connor, Mary I.
AU - Pandolfi, John M.
AU - Parmesan, Camille
AU - Schwing, Franklin
AU - Thompson, Sarah Ann
AU - Richardson, Anthony J.
N1 - 2013/08/04/
Global imprint of climate change on marine life
CrossRef
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations1, 2, taxonomic groups2, 3, 4 and/or biological responses5, 6. 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.
AB - Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations1, 2, taxonomic groups2, 3, 4 and/or biological responses5, 6. 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.
U2 - 10.1038/nclimate1958
DO - 10.1038/nclimate1958
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 3
SP - 919
EP - 925
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 10
M1 - n/a
ER -