Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate

L Ratnarajah, R Abu-Alhaija, A Atkinson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Zooplankton are major consumers of phytoplankton primary production in marine
ecosystems. As such, they represent a critical link for energy and matter transfer between …

[HTML][HTML] Gelatinous larvacean zooplankton can enhance trophic transfer and carbon sequestration

C Jaspers, RR Hopcroft, T Kiørboe, F Lombard… - Trends in ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Larvaceans are gelatinous zooplankton abundant throughout the ocean. Larvaceans have
been overlooked in research because they are difficult to collect and are perceived as being …

Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems

DP Tittensor, C Novaglio, CS Harrison… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Projections of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems have revealed long-term
declines in global marine animal biomass and unevenly distributed impacts on fisheries …

Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish

RF Heneghan, JD Everett, JL Blanchard… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Zooplankton are the primary energy pathway from phytoplankton to fish. Yet, there is limited
understanding about how climate change will modify zooplankton communities and the …

Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture and fisheries production in 72 tropical coastal communities

JE Cinner, IR Caldwell, L Thiault, J Ben… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to profoundly affect key food production sectors, including
fisheries and agriculture. However, the potential impacts of climate change on these sectors …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling diverse responses to climate change among global marine ecosystem models

RF Heneghan, E Galbraith, JL Blanchard… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is warming the ocean and impacting lower trophic level (LTL) organisms.
Marine ecosystem models can provide estimates of how these changes will propagate to …

Zooplankton grazing is the largest source of uncertainty for marine carbon cycling in CMIP6 models

T Rohr, AJ Richardson, A Lenton… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The current generation of Earth system models used by the United Nations to project future
climate scenarios (CMIP6) relies heavily on marine biogeochemical models to track the fate …

[HTML][HTML] Role of jellyfish in the plankton ecosystem revealed using a global ocean biogeochemical model

RM Wright, C Le Quéré, E Buitenhuis, S Pitois… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Jellyfish are increasingly recognised as important components of the marine ecosystem, yet
their specific role is poorly defined compared to that of other zooplankton groups. This paper …

A case for an active eukaryotic marine biosphere during the Proterozoic era

LK Eckford-Soper, KH Andersen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The microfossil record demonstrates the presence of eukaryotic organisms in the marine
ecosystem by about 1,700 million years ago (Ma). Despite this, steranes, a biomarker …

The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales

IA Hatton, RF Heneghan, YM Bar-On, ED Galbraith - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
It has long been hypothesized that aquatic biomass is evenly distributed among logarithmic
body mass size classes. Although this community structure has been observed regionally …