Towards Integrating Evolution, Metabolism, and Climate Change Studies of Marine Ecosystems

Federico Baltar (1) , Barbara Bayer (1) , Nina Bednarsek , Stacy Deppeler , Ruben Escribano , Carolina Gonzalez , Roberta Hansman , Rajani Kanta Mishra , Mary Ann Moran , Daniel Repeta (2) , Carol Robinson (3) , Eva Sintes (1) , Christian Tamburini (4) , Luis Valentin , Gerhard Herndl

1 Universität Wien = University of Vienna
2 WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3 UEA - University of East Anglia [Norwich]
4 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie

Global environmental changes are challenging the structure and functioning of ecosystems. However, a mechanistic understanding of how global environmental changes will affect ecosystems is still lacking. The complex and interacting biological and physical processes spanning vast temporal and spatial scales that constitute an ecosystem make this a formidable problem. A unifying framework based on ecological theory, that considers fundamental and realized niches, combined with metabolic, evolutionary, and climate change studies, is needed to provide the mechanistic understanding required to evaluate and forecast the future of marine communities, ecosystems, and their services.

Domaines: Bioclimatologie; Ecosystèmes; Océanographie

Federico Baltar, Barbara Bayer, Nina Bednarsek, Stacy Deppeler, Ruben Escribano, et al.. Towards Integrating Evolution, Metabolism, and Climate Change Studies of Marine Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2019, 34 (11), pp.1022-1033. ⟨10.1016/J.TREE.2019.07.003⟩. ⟨hal-02989907⟩