Is our understanding of aquatic ecosystems sufficient to quantify ecologically driven climate feedbacks?

Autor: Selden CR; Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA., LaBrie R; Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany., Ganley LC; Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Crocker DR; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., Peleg O; School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand., Perry DC; Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA., Reich HG; Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA., Sasaki M; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, Connecticut, USA., Thibodeau PS; School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, USA., Isanta-Navarro J; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Global change biology [Glob Chang Biol] 2024 Jun; Vol. 30 (6), pp. e17351.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17351
Abstrakt: The Earth functions as an integrated system-its current habitability to complex life is an emergent property dependent on interactions among biological, chemical, and physical components. As global warming affects ecosystem structure and function, so too will the biosphere affect climate by altering atmospheric gas composition and planetary albedo. Constraining these ecosystem-climate feedbacks is essential to accurately predict future change and develop mitigation strategies; however, the interplay among ecosystem processes complicates the assessment of their impact. Here, we explore the state-of-knowledge on how ecological and biological processes (e.g., competition, trophic interactions, metabolism, and adaptation) affect the directionality and magnitude of feedbacks between ecosystems and climate, using illustrative examples from the aquatic sphere. We argue that, despite ample evidence for the likely significance of many, our present understanding of the combinatorial effects of ecosystem dynamics precludes the robust quantification of most ecologically driven climate feedbacks. Constraining these effects must be prioritized within the ecological sciences for only by studying the biosphere as both subject and arbiter of global climate can we develop a sufficiently holistic view of the Earth system to accurately predict Earth's future and unravel its past.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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