The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world

Seaweed and seagrass communities in the northeast Atlantic have been profoundly impacted by humans, and the rate of change is accelerating rapidly due to runaway CO2 emissions and mounting pressures on coastlines associated with human population growth and increased consumption of finite resources....

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Main Authors:	Brodie, Juliet, Williamson, Christopher J, Smale, Dan A, Kamenos, Nicholas A, Mieszkowska, Nova, Santos, Rui, Cunliffe, Michael, Steinke, Michael, Yesson, Christopher, Anderson, Kathryn M, Asnaghi, Valentina, Brownlee, Colin, Burdett, Heidi L, Burrows, Michael T, Collins, Sinead, Donohue, Penelope J C, Harvey, Ben, Foggo, Andrew, Noisette, Fanny, Nunes, Joana, Ragazzola, Federica, Raven, John A, Schmidt, Daniela N, Suggett, David, Teichberg, Mirta, Hall-Spencer, Jason M
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113300/

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spelling	pubmed-41133002014-07-30 The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world Brodie, Juliet Williamson, Christopher J Smale, Dan A Kamenos, Nicholas A Mieszkowska, Nova Santos, Rui Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Michael Yesson, Christopher Anderson, Kathryn M Asnaghi, Valentina Brownlee, Colin Burdett, Heidi L Burrows, Michael T Collins, Sinead Donohue, Penelope J C Harvey, Ben Foggo, Andrew Noisette, Fanny Nunes, Joana Ragazzola, Federica Raven, John A Schmidt, Daniela N Suggett, David Teichberg, Mirta Hall-Spencer, Jason M Review Seaweed and seagrass communities in the northeast Atlantic have been profoundly impacted by humans, and the rate of change is accelerating rapidly due to runaway CO2 emissions and mounting pressures on coastlines associated with human population growth and increased consumption of finite resources. Here, we predict how rapid warming and acidification are likely to affect benthic flora and coastal ecosystems of the northeast Atlantic in this century, based on global evidence from the literature as interpreted by the collective knowledge of the authorship. We predict that warming will kill off kelp forests in the south and that ocean acidification will remove maerl habitat in the north. Seagrasses will proliferate, and associated epiphytes switch from calcified algae to diatoms and filamentous species. Invasive species will thrive in niches liberated by loss of native species and spread via exponential development of artificial marine structures. Combined impacts of seawater warming, ocean acidification, and increased storminess may replace structurally diverse seaweed canopies, with associated calcified and noncalcified flora, with simple habitats dominated by noncalcified, turf-forming seaweeds. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-07 2014-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4113300/ /pubmed/25077027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1105 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Brodie, Juliet Williamson, Christopher J Smale, Dan A Kamenos, Nicholas A Mieszkowska, Nova Santos, Rui Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Michael Yesson, Christopher Anderson, Kathryn M Asnaghi, Valentina Brownlee, Colin Burdett, Heidi L Burrows, Michael T Collins, Sinead Donohue, Penelope J C Harvey, Ben Foggo, Andrew Noisette, Fanny Nunes, Joana Ragazzola, Federica Raven, John A Schmidt, Daniela N Suggett, David Teichberg, Mirta Hall-Spencer, Jason M
spellingShingle	Brodie, Juliet Williamson, Christopher J Smale, Dan A Kamenos, Nicholas A Mieszkowska, Nova Santos, Rui Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Michael Yesson, Christopher Anderson, Kathryn M Asnaghi, Valentina Brownlee, Colin Burdett, Heidi L Burrows, Michael T Collins, Sinead Donohue, Penelope J C Harvey, Ben Foggo, Andrew Noisette, Fanny Nunes, Joana Ragazzola, Federica Raven, John A Schmidt, Daniela N Suggett, David Teichberg, Mirta Hall-Spencer, Jason M The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
author_facet	Brodie, Juliet Williamson, Christopher J Smale, Dan A Kamenos, Nicholas A Mieszkowska, Nova Santos, Rui Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Michael Yesson, Christopher Anderson, Kathryn M Asnaghi, Valentina Brownlee, Colin Burdett, Heidi L Burrows, Michael T Collins, Sinead Donohue, Penelope J C Harvey, Ben Foggo, Andrew Noisette, Fanny Nunes, Joana Ragazzola, Federica Raven, John A Schmidt, Daniela N Suggett, David Teichberg, Mirta Hall-Spencer, Jason M
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title	The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
title_short	The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
title_full	The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
title_fullStr	The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
title_full_unstemmed	The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world
title_sort	future of the northeast atlantic benthic flora in a high co2 world
description	Seaweed and seagrass communities in the northeast Atlantic have been profoundly impacted by humans, and the rate of change is accelerating rapidly due to runaway CO2 emissions and mounting pressures on coastlines associated with human population growth and increased consumption of finite resources. Here, we predict how rapid warming and acidification are likely to affect benthic flora and coastal ecosystems of the northeast Atlantic in this century, based on global evidence from the literature as interpreted by the collective knowledge of the authorship. We predict that warming will kill off kelp forests in the south and that ocean acidification will remove maerl habitat in the north. Seagrasses will proliferate, and associated epiphytes switch from calcified algae to diatoms and filamentous species. Invasive species will thrive in niches liberated by loss of native species and spread via exponential development of artificial marine structures. Combined impacts of seawater warming, ocean acidification, and increased storminess may replace structurally diverse seaweed canopies, with associated calcified and noncalcified flora, with simple habitats dominated by noncalcified, turf-forming seaweeds.
publisher	BlackWell Publishing Ltd
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The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world

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