Chair: Jean-Pierre Gattuso Ken Caldeira (1) 1 Dept. of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford CA 94305 USA. Background Ocean acidification research has at least two related goals: To build mechanistic understanding of how the world works, and to...
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Chair: Alistair Hobday Associate Professor William Cheung Climate change and ocean acidification in a high CO2 world are challenging the conservation and sustainable management of living marine resources (LMR). Projecting the future marine ecosystems that are grounded by theories, observations...
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Chair: Nelson Lagos Challenge of policy and adaptation for people and businesses Professor Stefan Gelcich
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Dr Sinead Collins Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh How will marine microbes evolve in response environmental change? What information about extant populations and their environments can we use to predict how evolution could change primary production in the...
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Sam Dupont (1) 1 University of Gothenburg, Fiskebäckskil, 45178, Sweden For decades, humans have caused local damage in many marine ecosystems by a variety of means including contamination by pollutants, over-fishing, physical destruction of the habitat etc. More recently, we...
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Katharina Fabricius Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld 4810, Australia Background Tropical and subtropical coral reefs are the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on earth. Their future integrity, and that of the hundreds of thousands of species associated with coral...
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Kristy J. Kroeker University of California Santa Cruz CO2-driven changes in ocean chemistry and temperature will fundamentally affect organismal physiology, with potentially cascading effects on populations, communities and ecosystems. Interactions among the numerous abiotic and biotic factors that govern ecosystem...
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Bärbel Hönisch Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964, USA Global warming and ocean acidification are widely discussed to impact marine life, but evidence from laboratory experiments and observations of reduced...
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