Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén, TB Atwood, ES Bakker… - Nature Climate …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Quantifying the ocean's biological pump and its carbon cycle impacts on global scales

DA Siegel, T DeVries, I Cetinić… - Annual review of marine …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
The biological pump transports organic matter, created by phytoplankton productivity in the
well-lit surface ocean, to the ocean's dark interior, where it is consumed by animals and …

The ocean carbon cycle

T DeVries - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The ocean holds vast quantities of carbon that it continually exchanges with the atmosphere
through the air-sea interface. Because of its enormous size and relatively rapid exchange of …

Quantifying the carbon export and sequestration pathways of the ocean's biological carbon pump

M Nowicki, T DeVries, DA Siegel - Global Biogeochemical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ocean's biological carbon pump transfers carbon from the surface ocean to the deep
ocean by several distinct pathways, including gravitational settling of organic particles …

The science, engineering, and validation of marine carbon dioxide removal and storage

SC Doney, WH Wolfe, DC McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Scenarios to stabilize global climate and meet international climate agreements require
rapid reductions in human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, often augmented by substantial …

Global decline of pelagic fauna in a warmer ocean

A Ariza, M Lengaigne, C Menkes… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Pelagic fauna is expected to be impacted under climate change according to ecosystem
simulations. However, the direction and magnitude of the impact is still uncertain and still not …

The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments

G Epstein, JJ Middelburg, JP Hawkins… - Global Change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Subtidal marine sediments are one of the planet's primary carbon stores and strongly
influence the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2. By far the most widespread human activity …

Linking vertical movements of large pelagic predators with distribution patterns of biomass in the open ocean

CD Braun, A Della Penna, MC Arostegui… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Many predator species make regular excursions from near-surface waters to the twilight
(200 to 1,000 m) and midnight (1,000 to 3,000 m) zones of the deep pelagic ocean. While …

Good fisheries management is good carbon management

NF Andersen, EL Cavan, WWL Cheung… - npj Ocean …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Climate change is causing persistent, widespread, and significant impacts on marine
ecosystems which are predicted to interact and intensify. Overfishing and associated habitat …