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Climate change and marine ecosystems

Climate change and marine ecosystems. Sea level  Destruction of coastal habitats Temperature  Range shifts Coral bleaching Melting sea ice pCO 2  pH  Acidification Oxygen  Dead zones . Climate change and marine ecosystems. Sea level 

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Climate change and marine ecosystems

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  1. Climate change and marine ecosystems • Sea level  • Destruction of coastal habitats • Temperature  • Range shifts • Coral bleaching • Melting sea ice • pCO2 pH  • Acidification • Oxygen  • Dead zones

  2. Climate change and marine ecosystems • Sea level  • Destruction of coastal habitats Today • Temperature  • Range shifts Today • Coral bleaching Today • Melting sea ice Today • pCO2 pH  • Acidification Monday • Oxygen  • Dead zones Monday

  3. All of these changes result from rising [CO2], mainly through its effects on temperature

  4. 2011-2030 2046-2065 2080-2099 IPCC Report 2007

  5. New report: same principle, different scenarios, more extreme predictions IPCC AR5 2013

  6. IPCC Report 2007

  7. Sea Level Rise Recall the main cause of sea-level rise Cazenave and Llovel, 2010, Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci. 2010. 2:145–173

  8. Figure 10.32.Local sea level change (m) due to ocean density and circulation change relative to the global average (i.e., positive values indicate greater local sea level change than global) during the 21st century, calculated as the difference between averages for 2080 to 2099 and 1980 to 1999, as an ensemble mean over 16 AOGCMs forced with the SRES A1B scenario. Stippling denotes regions where the magnitude of the multi-model ensemble mean divided by the multi-model standard deviation exceeds 1.0.

  9. Coastal ecosystems affected by sea level rise Mangroves Salt marshes Important habitat for fish and invertebrates Very productive, fix lots of organic carbon

  10. Tidal marsh response to sea level rise of 40 cm Vegetation Mean sea level Upland migration of intertidal zones compresses marsh habitat but can increase area of tidal flat habitat Moorhead and Brinson 1995

  11. Coastal ecosystems threatened by both sea level rise and coastal development MSL1 = old sea level MSL2 = new sea level Bird et al. 1995

  12. Sea level rise likely to reduce diversity & distribution of mangroves and seagrass habitats Indonesia and Indian Ocean have greatest diversity + large projected rise in sea level

  13. Many species must move to survive ocean warming

  14. Direction of migration varies with location and direction of heating/cooling trend 360 species from bottom trawls 1968-2011 Pinksy et al. 2013 Science

  15. Species ranges are temperature-dependent Yellow croaker “relative abundance” = Fraction of maximum abundance Cheunget al. 2009

  16. Estimated 2050 distribution of N=1066 species using projected temperature map Ninvasion= # Invasions by 2050 # species in 2001-2005 (Note smaller scale for extinction) Nextinction= # Extinctions by 2050 # species in 2001-2005 Cheunget al. 2009

  17. Predicted distribution of biodiversity impact dueto warming-induced range shifts Turnover = | Ninvasion-Nextinction | N=1066 species Cheunget al. 2009

  18. Temperature and Coral Bleaching Healthy corals have Zooxanthellae -Symbiotic unicellular algae -Photosynthetic -Algal pigments provide coral color -Provide up to 90% of coral’s energy High temperature causes coral to expel their zooxanthellae -Coral turn white: “Bleaching” -Coral lose their main energy source -If severe, results in death

  19. Bleaching occurs above a threshold temperature 1-2o C above the long-term summer max temperature Bleaching threshold varies among species and systems Hoegh-Guldberg (1999)

  20. Summer of 2010 was one of the worst on record for bleaching in Northern latitudes, Caribbean Stress LevelPotential Bleaching Intensity No Stress No Bleaching Watch Warning Possible Bleaching Alert Level 1 Bleaching Likely Alert Level 2 Mortality Likely http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.html

  21. Summer of 2013 was milder in Caribbean but worse in some Northern latitudes Stress LevelPotential Bleaching Intensity No Stress No Bleaching Watch Warning Possible Bleaching Alert Level 1 Bleaching Likely Alert Level 2 Mortality Likely

  22. Current bleaching outlook is mild Stress LevelPotential Bleaching Intensity No Stress No Bleaching Watch Warning Possible Bleaching Alert Level 1 Bleaching Likely Alert Level 2 Mortality Likely

  23. “Business as usual” model projections of SST: Likely wide-spread die-off of coral reefs by the end of the century Central Pacific Southeast Asia Caribbean Hoegh-Guldberg (1999)

  24. Melting sea ice - more extreme at North pole than at South pole -More warming projected in Arctic than in Antarctic -Arctic covered in ice cap, Antarctic covered in land mass

  25. Sea-ice melting: different in Arctic and Antarctic Arctic Antarctic http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice.html

  26. Sea ice projections (IPCC AR4 Fig 10.14) 1980-2000 Winter Summer 2080-2100 Winter Summer Sea ice concentration (% of time)

  27. Arctic polar ice cap melting in summer 2012 September sea-ice extent Average September sea-ice extent from 1979 to 2000 • Arctic has had permanent (year-round) sea ice for last 5000 years. • Recent summer sea-ice extent is nearly 50% lower than 1979-2000 extent. • Arctic summer sea-ice may disappear within 10 to 20 years.

  28. Arctic: Polar bears live, hunt, and raise cubs on sea ice-Loss of summer ice means more energy needed for hunting, camouflage less effective

  29. Polar bear survival probabilities from 2001-2006 mark-recapture data Dots indicate location of each polar bear caught Hunter et al. 2010

  30. Relate population growth rate to “Ice(t)”, the number of ice-free days per year If growth rate <1, population is shrinking Need <127 ice-free days for population growth Hunter et al. 2010

  31. Extinction probability Projected ice-free days 2005 2025 2045 2065 2085 2105 2005 2025 2045 2065 2085 2105 10 circulation models Predict # ice-free days + Population model (depends on Ice(t))  Population projections >80% probability of extinction by 2100 Hunter et al. 2007

  32. New model suggests emissions cap could lessen risk of extinction Sea ice cover in September, the most ice-free month “Business as usual” 2020 Emissions cap 2020 emissions cap scenario predicts <25% extinction probability Amstrup et al. 2011

  33. Polar bears - current status: “Threatened” • 2010: 187,000 mi2 in Alaska, mostly sea ice area, set aside as “critical habitat” • “Threatened” status can’t be used to regulate greenhouse gases or influence climate policy • December 2010: President Obama denied upgrade of polar bears to “endangered” status • July 2011: Federal judge agreed with President Obama, ruled that polar bears are merely “threatened”

  34. Latest population assessment: 1 increasing, 3 stable, 8 decreasing

  35. Antarctic sea-ice extent has increased slightly, mainly in the Ross Sea Average September sea-ice extent from 1979 to 2000 2012 September sea-ice extent Sea ice extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent.

  36. Although Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking on average, there are occasional large ice losses Larsen B ice sheet collapse 2002 Despite slight increases in Antarctic ice extent, large sections of ice sheets have broken off in recent years.

  37. Antarctica: Emperor penguins sensitive to sea ice extent-Too much ice: Foraging trips too long, lower survival-Ice breaks up too soon: chicks die before fledging

  38. Emperor Penguins Population model Demographic data set + Global climate models Predictions of sea ice extent  Population projections 1972-1981: 11% per year reduction in sea ice 50% decline in penguin population -Penguin survival sensitive to changes in sea ice >36% probability of quasi-extinction (95% decline) by 2100 -“To avoid extinction, emperor penguins will have to adapt, migrate, or change the timing of their growth stages.” Jenouvrier et al. 2008

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