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New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities?
The Paris Agreement signed by 195 countries in 2015 sets out a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to remain below 2 °C. Under that premise, in situ experiments were run to test the effects of 2 °C temperature increase on the benthic communities in a seagr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28634416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04309-0 |
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author | Crespo, Daniel Grilo, Tiago Fernandes Baptista, Joana Coelho, João Pedro Lillebø, Ana Isabel Cássio, Fernanda Fernandes, Isabel Pascoal, Cláudia Pardal, Miguel Ângelo Dolbeth, Marina |
author_facet | Crespo, Daniel Grilo, Tiago Fernandes Baptista, Joana Coelho, João Pedro Lillebø, Ana Isabel Cássio, Fernanda Fernandes, Isabel Pascoal, Cláudia Pardal, Miguel Ângelo Dolbeth, Marina |
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description | The Paris Agreement signed by 195 countries in 2015 sets out a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to remain below 2 °C. Under that premise, in situ experiments were run to test the effects of 2 °C temperature increase on the benthic communities in a seagrass bed and adjacent bare sediment, from a temperate European estuary. Temperature was artificially increased in situ and diversity and ecosystem functioning components measured after 10 and 30 days. Despite some warmness effects on the analysed components, significant impacts were not verified on macro and microfauna structure, bioturbation or in the fluxes of nutrients. The effect of site/habitat seemed more important than the effects of the warmness, with the seagrass habitat providing more homogenous results and being less impacted by warmness than the adjacent bare sediment. The results reinforce that most ecological responses to global changes are context dependent and that ecosystem stability depends not only on biological diversity but also on the availability of different habitats and niches, highlighting the role of coastal wetlands. In the context of the Paris Agreement it seems that estuarine benthic ecosystems will be able to cope if global warming remains below 2 °C. |
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spelling | pubmed-54786322017-06-23 New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? Crespo, Daniel Grilo, Tiago Fernandes Baptista, Joana Coelho, João Pedro Lillebø, Ana Isabel Cássio, Fernanda Fernandes, Isabel Pascoal, Cláudia Pardal, Miguel Ângelo Dolbeth, Marina Sci Rep Article The Paris Agreement signed by 195 countries in 2015 sets out a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to remain below 2 °C. Under that premise, in situ experiments were run to test the effects of 2 °C temperature increase on the benthic communities in a seagrass bed and adjacent bare sediment, from a temperate European estuary. Temperature was artificially increased in situ and diversity and ecosystem functioning components measured after 10 and 30 days. Despite some warmness effects on the analysed components, significant impacts were not verified on macro and microfauna structure, bioturbation or in the fluxes of nutrients. The effect of site/habitat seemed more important than the effects of the warmness, with the seagrass habitat providing more homogenous results and being less impacted by warmness than the adjacent bare sediment. The results reinforce that most ecological responses to global changes are context dependent and that ecosystem stability depends not only on biological diversity but also on the availability of different habitats and niches, highlighting the role of coastal wetlands. In the context of the Paris Agreement it seems that estuarine benthic ecosystems will be able to cope if global warming remains below 2 °C. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5478632/ /pubmed/28634416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04309-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Crespo, Daniel Grilo, Tiago Fernandes Baptista, Joana Coelho, João Pedro Lillebø, Ana Isabel Cássio, Fernanda Fernandes, Isabel Pascoal, Cláudia Pardal, Miguel Ângelo Dolbeth, Marina New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title | New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title_full | New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title_fullStr | New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title_full_unstemmed | New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title_short | New climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °C temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
title_sort | new climatic targets against global warming: will the maximum 2 °c temperature rise affect estuarine benthic communities? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28634416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04309-0 |
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