Climate change-accelerated ocean biodiversity loss & associated planetary health impacts

Comment on "Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services".

Worm et al. (Research Articles, 3 November 2006, p. 787) reported an increasing proportion of fisheries in a "collapsed" state. We show that this may be an artifact of their definition of collapse as a fixed percentage of the maximum and that an increase in the number of managed fisheries could produce similar patterns as an increase in fisheries with catches below 10% of the maximum.

Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.

Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possible effects of climate change that can operate at individual, population, species, community, ecosystem and biome scales, notably showing that species can respond to climate change challenges by shifting their climatic niche along three ...

Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

Introduction 236 Methodology 239 Sample of marine fish and invertebrates 239 Dynamic bioclimate envelope model 239 Climate change scenarios 241 Climate change impact on biodiversity 241 Results 242 Climate change-induced range shift 243 Discussion 245 Key uncertainties 246 Potential implications and future directions 247 Acknowledgements 247 References 248 Abstract Climate change can impact the...

Public Health Impacts from Climate Change

Public Health-Related Impacts of Climate Change

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