Sentences with phrase «alters ocean communities»

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Rising ocean temperatures will alter the productivity and composition of marine phytoplankton communities, thereby affecting global biogeochemical cycles.

These results imply that acidified seawater impacts larval physiology, suggesting that suppressed metabolism and metamorphosis may alter the dispersal potential of larvae and subsequently reduce the resilience of coral communities in the near future as the ocean pH decreases.

Recognition has grown in the scientific community that droughts, heat - waves and other catastrophic weather and climate events are not random in occurrence, nor are they caused only by variations in remote ocean temperatures altering large - scale atmospheric circulation.

The warmer ocean surface temperatures impact corals and alter coral reef communities by prompting coral bleaching events and altering ocean chemistry.

Predicted levels of future ocean acidification and temperature rise could alter community structure and biodiversity in marine benthic communities

While biotic interactions play a fundamental role in defining change to species distribution and communities structure [22 — 24], the degree to which ocean acidification and climate change may alter the way in which species interact with one another is not fully understood.