Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

YJ Shin, GF Midgley, ERM Archer, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

D Breitburg, LA Levin, A Oschlies, M Grégoire… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have
been declining since at least the middle of the 20th century. This oxygen loss, or …

Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - IPCC AR6 WGI, final …, 2021 - hal.science
ES 6: 3-5 Replace “It is unequivocal that emissions of the well-mixed greenhouse gases
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) from human activities …

Redox classification and calibration of redox thresholds in sedimentary systems

TJ Algeo, C Li - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Existing redox classifications and the calibrations of elemental proxies to modern
environmental redox scales are in need of re-evaluation. Here, we review environmental …

Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean

M Dai, Y Zhao, F Chai, M Chen, N Chen… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Coastal eutrophication and hypoxia remain a persistent environmental crisis despite the
great efforts to reduce nutrient loading and mitigate associated environmental damages …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles

P Ciais, C Sabine, G Bala… - … of Working Group …, 2014 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
This chapter addresses the biogeochemical cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
and nitrous oxide (N2O). The three greenhouse gases have increased in the atmosphere …

Climate change and dead zones

AH Altieri, KB Gedan - Global change biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Estuaries and coastal seas provide valuable ecosystem services but are particularly
vulnerable to the co‐occurring threats of climate change and oxygen‐depleted dead zones …

Manifestation, drivers, and emergence of open ocean deoxygenation

LA Levin - Annual review of marine science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Oxygen loss in the ocean, termed deoxygenation, is a major consequence of climate change
and is exacerbated by other aspects of global change. An average global loss of 2% or more …

Microbial ecology of expanding oxygen minimum zones

JJ Wright, KM Konwar, SJ Hallam - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Dissolved oxygen concentration is a crucial organizing principle in marine ecosystems. As
oxygen levels decline, energy is increasingly diverted away from higher trophic levels into …

A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

TD Jickells, E Buitenhuis, K Altieri… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We report a new synthesis of best estimates of the inputs of fixed nitrogen to the world ocean
via atmospheric deposition and compare this to fluvial inputs and dinitrogen fixation. We …