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Quota use in mixed‐stock fisheries
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT RH receives research funding from many groups that have interests in fisheries outcomes including environmental NGOs, foundations, governments and fishing industry groups. KM is employed by the Shorebased Whiting Cooperative, is married to and related to fishery participants. BM and BT are employed by organizations that represent participants in the BC commercial groundfish trawl fishery. MM is currently employed by the Marine Stewardship Council.
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances
1 INTRODUCTION Understanding the response of natural systems to disturbance is an overarching goal in ecology and a requirement for successful conservation (Morecroft et al., 2012). Coral reefs have long been recognized as dynamic ecosystems that are periodically subjected to disturbances from which they typically recover (Connell, 1997; Dana, 1853; Lamy et al., 2016).
The green energy surge still isn't enough for 1.5 degrees. We'll have to overshoot, adapt and soak up carbon dioxide
It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest net zero roadmap, showing it was still just possible to hold global heating to 1.5℃. In the last two years, we’ve seen major global investment in clean energy, spurred on by energy independence concerns raised by the war in Ukraine, as well as intensifying extreme weather.
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change
Abstract enThis link goes to a English sectionzhThis link goes to a English sectionfrThis link goes to a French sectionesThis link goes to a Spanish section Over recent decades, our understanding of climate change has accelerated greatly, but unfortunately, observable impacts have increased in tandem. Both mitigation and adaptation have not progressed at the level or scale warranted by our collective knowledge on climate change.
Strong seasonal patterns of DOC release by a temperate seaweed community: Implications for the coastal ocean carbon cycle
RESEARCH ARTICLE This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi:10.1111/jpy.13352. Abstract Release of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) by seaweed underpins the microbial food web and is crucial for the coastal ocean carbon cycle.
Editorial: Data-limited research in stock assessment to increase the understanding of fisheries resources and inform and improve management efforts
Management thinker Peter Drucker is often quoted as saying “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Drucker means that you cannot know whether or not you are successful unless success is defined and monitored. Such a quote is fully applicable to fishery science because only when we can estimate the status of stocks can we provide meaningful and successful management advice: that which gets measured gets managed.
Synchronous climate hazards pose an increasing challenge to global coffee production
3.3 Drivers of climate hazards and compound events Fig 5 suggests that years with high numbers of climate hazards might be related to strong ENSO events. In particular, there were significant El Niño events in 1998, 2015, 2016 and 2019, and these years also featured high numbers of warm or dry hazards. To try and isolate any possible influence of the climate modes on the hazards from the climate change signal, we analyse their relationship using detrended data.
Responses of intertidal invertebrates to rising sea surface temperatures in the southeastern Indian Ocean
Introduction Global warming is recognized as one of the critical environmental issues in marine ecosystems, and the pace of change is increasing (O’Hara et al., 2021). Ocean circulation patterns and water chemistry are being disrupted, including changes in marine temperatures, stratification, nutrient input, oxygen content and ocean acidification (Harley et al., 2006; Doney et al., 2012).
Natural marine cloud brightening in the Southern Ocean
ACP Letters | Highlight paper 01 Feb 2023 ACP Letters | Highlight paper | 01 Feb 2023 Natural marine cloud brightening in the Southern Ocean Gerald G. Mace1, Sally Benson1, Ruhi Humphries2,3, Peter M.
We've lost a giant: Vale Professor Will Steffen, climate science pioneer
Should Australia let Kanye West in? Just one year after then-Immigration Minister Alex Hawke moved to expel tennis star Novak Djokovic from Australia on character grounds, his Labor successor, Andrew Giles, is faced with another controversial visitor in the form of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West). Although he’s both a musician and rapper, Ye may be best described as a social influencer – and one with very offensive views, especially when it comes to Jewish people and the Holocaust.
Strong nonlinearity of land climate‐carbon cycle feedback under a high CO2 growth scenario
Abstract Projections of future climate change for given CO2 and other greenhouse gas emission scenarios depend on the response of global climate-carbon cycle feedback, which consists of carbon-concentration feedback (e.g., CO2 physiology effect on land carbon sink) and carbon-climate feedback (e.g., CO2 radiative effect on land carbon sink). Previous studies have assumed no significant interaction between these two feedbacks within the Earth system.
The onset process of the 2018/2019 Indonesian-Australian summer monsoon: The importance of the air-sea interaction
Yongliang Duan1,2,3*, Hongwei Liu4, Ming Feng5,6, Xiangzhou Song7, Kuiping Li1,2,3, Lin Liu1,2,3, Baochao Liu1,2,3, Guang Yang1,2,3 and Weidong Yu2,8,9,10* 1Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China 2Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China 3Shandong Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical...
Coloring coral larvae allows tracking of local dispersal and settlement
Loading metrics Abstract Quantifying patterns of dispersal and settlement in marine benthic invertebrates is challenging, largely due the complexity of life history traits, small sizes of larvae (<1 mm), and potential for large-scale dispersal (>100 km) in the marine environment. Here, we develop a novel method that allows for immediate differentiation and visual tracking of large numbers of coral larvae (106 to 109) from dispersal to settlement.
Seasonal variability of eddy kinetic energy in the East Australian current region
Jia Liu1†, Shaojun Zheng1,2,3*†, Ming Feng4, Lingling Xie1,2,3, Baoxin Feng1,2,3, Peng Liang1,2,3, Lei Wang1,2,3, Lina Yang1,2,3 and Li Yan1,2,3 1Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China 2Key Laboratory of Climate, Resources, and Environment in Continental Shelf Sea and Deep Sea of Department of Education of Guangdong Province, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong,...
Global carbon emissions at record levels with no signs of shrinking, new data shows. Humanity has a monumental task ahead
Wed Nov 16 Written by Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Global carbon dioxide emissions from all human activities remain at record highs in 2022, and fossil fuel emissions have risen above pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis by an international body of scientists.
Linking niche size and phylogenetic signals to predict future soil microbial relative abundances
Introduction Soil bacteria provide ecosystem services that regulate climate, purify water, and produce food and other commodities. However, despite their central role in regulating terrestrial carbon dynamics, nutrient cycles, and plant productivity, much remains unknown about even general bacterial traits, including distributions, habitat preferences, and life histories (Fierer and Jackson, 2006; Fierer, 2017; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2018).
El aumento de las emisiones globales de carbono se desacelera, pero sigue en niveles récord
Marcin Jozwiak / Unsplash, CC BY Las emisiones globales de dióxido de carbono de todas las actividades humanas continúan en niveles récord en el 2022, y las emisiones de combustibles fósiles han aumentado por encima de los niveles previos a la pandemia, según un nuevo análisis realizado por un organismo internacional de científicos.
Global Carbon Budget 2022
Data description paper | 11 Nov 2022 Data description paper | | 11 Nov 2022 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. Publisher's note: In the originally published article, a section numbering error occurred starting below Sect. 2.4 with the section Land CO2 sink and ending with the section Processes not included in the global carbon budget. We corrected the article accordingly. Nothing else has changed.
Exploring the risks and benefits of flexibility in biodiversity offset location in a case study of migratory shorebirds
Practice and Policy Article Impact statement: Flexibility in offset location needs explicit evaluation to determine when flexibility enhances biodiversity gains and when it undermines it. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record.
Fatty acid profiles of more than 470 marine species from the Southern Hemisphere
Abstract Lipid and fatty acid datasets are commonly used to assess nutritional composition of organisms, trophic ecology, and ecosystem dynamics. Lipids and their fatty acid constituents are essential nutrients to all forms of life because they contribute to essential biological processes such as energy flow and metabolism. Assessment of total lipids in tissues of organisms provides information on energy allocation and life-history strategies and can be an indicator of nutritional condition.
Recommendations for Plankton Measurements on OceanSITES Moorings With Relevance to Other Observing Sites
1 Introduction Tracking how marine life responds to increased human use and climate change will empower the global community to predict, mitigate, and manage the ocean. Here we demonstrate the existence of mature technologies to measure a combination of biomass and diversity indicators across most of the plankton size spectrum (from sub-micron bacteria to mm-size zooplankton).
A Guide to International Climate Mitigation Policy and Finance Frameworks Relevant to the Protection and Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Natural Climate Solutions Effective protection, management, and restoration of vegetated ecosystems on land and in the ocean can help reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to limit global warming (Howard et al., 2017; Fuss et al., 2018). These ‘natural climate solutions’ (NCS: Griscom et al., 2017) are part of an increasing emphasis on nature-based solutions (NbS) to multiple global problems (Seddon et al., 2020).
The Next Decade of Seismic Oceanography: Possibilities, Challenges and Solutions
Impact Factor 4.912 | CiteScore 5.0 More on impact › TABLE OF CONTENTS Alex Dickinson1* and Kathryn L. Gunn2* 1School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 2Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia Seismic reflection profiling of thermohaline structure has the potential to transform our understanding of oceanic mixing and circulation.
Projections of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions and the resulting global warming based on recent trends in observed abundances and current policies
Research article | Highlight paper 10 May 2022 Research article | Highlight paper | 10 May 2022 Projections of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions and the resulting global warming based on recent trends in observed abundances and current policies Guus J. M. Velders et al. Guus J. M. Velders1,2, John S. Daniel3, Stephen A. Montzka4, Isaac Vimont4,5, Matthew Rigby6, Paul B. Krummel7, Jens Muhle8, Simon O'Doherty6, Ronald G. Prinn9, Ray F.
Bycatch of a Critically Endangered Shark Glyphis glyphis in a Crab Pot Fishery: Implications for Management
Introduction Bycatch is the unintentional capture of non-target species during fishing as a result of low selectivity in fishing gear. It is a significant challenge to fishers and fishery managers around the globe (Suuronen et al., 2012) with approximately 10.8% of global fisheries catch classified as bycatch and the majority discarded back into the ocean (Perez Roda et al., 2019).
Stratospheric ozone depletion and tropospheric ozone increases drive Southern Ocean interior warming - Nature Climate Change
Abstract Atmospheric ozone has undergone distinct changes in the stratosphere and troposphere during the second half of the twentieth century, with depletion in the stratosphere and an increase in the troposphere. Until now, the effect of these changes on ocean heat uptake has been unclear. Here we show that both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone changes have contributed to Southern Ocean interior warming with the latter being more important.
Wildfires enhance phytoplankton production in tropical oceans - Nature Communications
Abstract Wildfire magnitude and frequency have greatly escalated on a global scale. Wildfire products rich in biogenic elements can enter the ocean through atmospheric and river inputs, but their contribution to marine phytoplankton production is poorly understood. Here, using geochemical paleo-reconstructions, a century-long relationship between wildfire magnitude and marine phytoplankton production is established in a fire-prone region of Kimberley coast, Australia.
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific - Nature Climate Change
Abstract Future changes in the mean climate of the tropical Pacific and characteristics of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are established as being likely. Determining the time of emergence of climate change signals from the natural variability is critical for mitigation strategies and adaptation planning. Here, using a multimodel ensemble, we find that the annual-mean sea surface temperature (SST) signal has already emerged across much of the tropical Pacific, appearing last in the east.
Climate tipping point of nitrogen fixation - Nature Plants
A recent study suggests that the optimal temperature for symbiotic nitrogen fixation rates exceeds the plant’s preferred growth temperature in laboratory conditions. A few degrees of warming could thereby increase or decrease nitrogen fixation rates, depending on the optimal rate among species. The land biosphere has taken up about one quarter of the cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emissions since 1850, which has mitigated historical warming1.
El Niño/Southern Oscillation inhibited by submesoscale ocean eddies - Nature Geoscience
Abstract The El Niño/Southern Oscillation is characterized by irregular warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) events in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which have substantial global environmental and socioeconomic impacts. These events are generally attributed to the instability of basin-scale air–sea interactions in the equatorial Pacific.
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model - Nature Climate Change
Abstract Marine heatwaves (MHWs), episodic periods of abnormally high sea surface temperature, severely affect marine ecosystems. Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) cover ~22% of the global ocean but account for 95% of global fisheries catches. Yet how climate change affects MHWs over LMEs remains unknown because such LMEs are confined to the coast where low-resolution climate models are known to have biases.
Best Practice Data Standards for Discrete Chemical Oceanographic Observations
Introduction Standards for reporting both data and metadata are important for data sharing, quality control (QC), and synthesis efforts (Tanhua et al., 2019; Brett et al., 2020). Metadata are structured information that describes an information resource such as an oceanographic data set, providing context for it, and enabling its discovery and access (Guenther and Radebaugh, 2004; Riley, 2017). Metadata conforming to community-driven standards, such as those described by Jiang et al.
Does revegetation cause soil microbiota recovery? Evidence from revisiting a revegetation chronosequence six years after initial sampling
RESEARCH ARTICLE Alfie J. Lem, Alfie J.
Mid-Ocean Ridge and Storm Enhanced Mixing in the Central South Atlantic Thermocline
Introduction Turbulent diapycnal mixing maintains global overturning circulation (Munk and Wunsch, 1998). Diapycnal mixing is primarily caused by breaking of internal waves that transfer energy from large to small scales, ultimately leading to irreversible mixing. Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of mixing is important in developing ocean circulation and climate models (Harrison and Hallberg, 2008).
Frontiers | Growth Parameters and Spawning Season Estimation of Four Important Flyingfishes in the Kuroshio Current Off Taiwan and Implications From Comparisons With Global Studies | Marine Science
Introduction Growth and reproduction are the most important factors that act to increase fish biomass (King, 2007). How fast an animal grows and whether it reproduces once or twice, or more, in a lifespan are part of the crucial information on fish life history traits used for stock status assessment, which is essential for developing management plans for the resource.
ACCESS datasets for CMIP6: methodology and idealised experiments
- Author Affiliations A CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Vic. 3195, Australia. B CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Battery Point, Tas. 7004, Australia. C School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia. D Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. E National Computational Infrastructure, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.
Rapid increase in dichloromethane emissions from China inferred through atmospheric observations - Nature Communications
Abstract With the successful implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the atmospheric abundance of ozone-depleting substances continues to decrease slowly and the Antarctic ozone hole is showing signs of recovery. However, growing emissions of unregulated short-lived anthropogenic chlorocarbons are offsetting some of these gains. Here, we report an increase in emissions from China of the industrially produced chlorocarbon, dichloromethane (CH2Cl2).
Multi-Indicator Harvest Strategies for Data-Limited Fisheries: A Practitioner Guide to Learning and Design
Introduction Fisheries provide food and jobs for hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Yet between one third to one half of fisheries are likely to be unsustainably fished, limiting their potential to achieve conservation and food provisioning objectives (Costello et al., 2012, 2016; FAO, 2020b).
Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels - Nature Climate Change
Since the Paris Agreement, the impacts of 1.5 and 2 °C global warming have been emphasized, but the rate of warming also has regional effects. A new framework of model experiments is needed to increase our understanding of climate stabilization and its impacts. Following the Paris Agreement, there have been hundreds of studies researching the impacts of 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming above pre-industrial levels.
A comprehensive and synthetic dataset for global, regional, and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970-2018 with an extension to 2019
Allen, M. M. R., Shine, K. P. K., Fuglestvedt, J. J. S., Millar, R. J., Cain, M., Frame, D. J., and Macey, A. H.: A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation, Clim. Atmos. Sci., 1, 16, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-018-0026-8, 2018. Andres, R. J., Boden, T. A., Bréon, F.-M., Ciais, P., Davis, S., Erickson, D., Gregg, J. S., Jacobson, A., Marland, G., Miller, J., Oda, T., Olivier, J. G. J., Raupach, M.
Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows
Global carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back after COVID-19 restrictions and are likely to reach close to pre-pandemic levels this year, our analysis released today has found. The troubling finding comes as the COP26 climate talks continue in Glasgow in a last-ditch bid to keep dangerous global warming at bay. The analysis was undertaken by the Global Carbon Project, a consortium of scientists from around the world who produce, collect and analyse global greenhouse gas information.
Animal Borne Ocean Sensors - AniBOS - An Essential Component of the Global Ocean Observing System
Introduction The world’s oceans are an essential part of the global climate system Abraham et al. (2013). Central to understanding the earth’s climate is a thorough understanding of ocean physics and how the oceans are changing. Global efforts to coordinate ocean observations are overseen by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), created by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in March 1991 (Moltmann et al., 2019).
Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions
Review status: this preprint is currently under review for the journal ESSD. Zhu Deng1,, Philippe Ciais2,, Zitely A. Tzompa-Sosa2, Marielle Saunois2, Chunjing Qiu2, Chang Tan1, Taochun Sun1, Piyu Ke1, Yanan Cui3, Katsumasa Tanaka2,4, Xin Lin2, Rona L. Thompson5, Hanqin Tian6, Yuanzhi Yao6, Yuanyuan Huang7, Ronny Lauerwald8, Atul K. Jain9, Xiaoming Xu9, Ana Bastos10, Stephen Sitch11, Paul I.
The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function - Nature
Abstract The leaf economics spectrum1,2 and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions3 revealed fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies that are shaped by the evolutionary development of plant species2. Ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and the traits of species that comprise the ecological communities4.
Projected ocean warming constrained by the ocean observational record - Nature Climate Change
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Author Correction: Environmental influences on foraging effort, success and efficiency in female Australian fur seals - Scientific Reports
Author Correction Open Access Published: 12 August 2021 Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 16735 (2021) Cite this article The Original Article was published on 19 October 2020 Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73579-y, published online 19 October 2020 The original version of this Article contained an error.
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth's future. Here’s what you need to know
Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report also found escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.
Acoustic Telemetry Around Western Australia’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure Helps Detect the Presence of an Elusive and Endangered Migratory Giant
Introduction Offshore oil and gas (O&G) infrastructure such as pipelines and platforms have proliferated along continental margins and in the deeper oceans worldwide (Ars and Rios, 2017). These structures are colonised by sessile and motile epibiota, which in turn attract fish and larger fauna (van der Stap et al., 2016; Bond et al., 2018; Thomson et al., 2018; McLean et al., 2019a; Todd et al., 2019).
Local knowledge surveys with small‐scale fishers indicate challenges to sawfish conservation in southern Papua New Guinea
RESEARCH ARTICLE Michael I. Grant, Corresponding Author michael.grant4@my.jcu.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0002-6127-8968 Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia Correspondence Michael I. Grant, Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
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