Elvira Poloczanska's research while affiliated with Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and other places

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, emerged in late 2019, halfway through the preparation of the IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report. This Cross-Chapter Box assesses how the massive shock of the pandemic and response measures interact with climate-related impacts and risks as well as its significan...
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‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, the Working Group II contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report presents a comprehensive assessment of the current state of knowledge of the observed impacts and projected risks of climate change as well as the adaptation options. The r...
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The ocean is gaining prominence in climate change policy circles as a tool for addressing the climate crisis. Blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored by marine and coastal ecosystems and species, offers potential as a “nature-based solution” to climate change. The protection and restoration of specific ocean ecosystems can form part of a climat...
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A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03271-2.
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Early-career scientists (ECSs) are a large part of the workforce in science. While they produce new scientific knowledge that they share in publications, they are rarely invited to participate in the peer-review process. Barriers to the participation of ECSs as peer reviewers include, among other things, their lack of visibility to editors, inexper...
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Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. Achieving this goal will require rebuilding the marine life-support systems that deliver the many benefits that society receives from a healthy ocean. Here we document the recovery of marine...
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Early Career Scientists (ECS) are a large part of the work force in science. While they produce new scientific knowledge that they share in publications, they are rarely invited to participate in the peer-review process. Barriers to the participation of ECS as peer-reviewers include, among others, their lack of visibility to editors, inexperience i...
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This is the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, as approved by the IPCC member countries at the Plenary in Monaco, 25 September 2019.
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This is the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC Special Report on Land and Climate Change, as approved by the IPCC member countries at the Plenary in Geneva, Aug 2-7 2019.
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Monitoring of fisheries fleets provides crucial data for sustainable use of ocean resources
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The ocean is a vast and varied habitat for organisms, and contains most of the known phyla and at least 250,000 species. Patterns of biodiversity vary by depth, habitat type and region, with numerous hotspots of diversity of particular taxa, such as fishes. Patterns of fish diversity globally, and their sensitivities to climate change, need to be u...
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Coral reefs are found in a wide range of environments, where they provide food and habitat to a large range of organisms as well as providing many other ecological goods and services. Warm-water coral reefs, for example, occupy shallow sunlit, warm, and alkaline waters in order to grow and calcify at the high rates necessary to build and maintain t...
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Climate change impacts on vertebrates have consequences for marine ecosystem structures and services. We review marine fish, mammal, turtle, and seabird responses to climate change and discuss their potential for adaptation. Direct and indirect responses are demonstrated from every ocean. Because of variation in research foci, observed responses di...
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In this ecological risk assessment for the Flinders and Gilbert river catchment, available catch and effort data were collated for commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries as well as fishery independent aquatic faunal and trophic surveys in the southeastern GoC. This identified 46 taxonomic groups that were considered by scientific experts...
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Human interference with the climate system is occurring. [WGI AR5 2.2, 6.3, 10.3-6, 10.9] Climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure TS.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential...
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The Ocean exerts a profound influence as part of the Earth, interacting with its atmosphere, cryosphere, land, and biosphere to produce planetary conditions. It also directly influences human welfare through the provision and transport of food and resources, as well as by providing cultural and economic benefits. The Ocean also contributes to human...
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IPCC WGII AR4 presented the detection of a global fingerprint on natural systems and its attribution to climate change (AR4, Chapter 1, SPM Figure 1), but studies from marine systems were mostly absent. Since AR4, there has been a rapid increase in studies that focus on climate change impacts on marine species, which represents an opportunity to mo...
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Climate change represents a major threat to coastal ecosystems and communities. In many areas around the Australian coast, the combined projected threats of sea level rise, increased temperatures and reduced rainfall will place unprecedented stress on species, ecosystems and human settlements and industries. Given that even the strictest climate ch...

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... Therefore, variations in these climatic elements will impact the future presence of mountain ice. For example, by the year 2100, the annual runoff in one-third of the 56 large-scale glacierized catchments is projected to decline by over 10%, with the most significant reductions in Central Asia and the Andes [52]. ...
... Together with the reported decrease of emissions after a prolonged drought , this indicates that frequent shorter drought spells are likely to increase isoprene emissions. Therefore, Q. robur should probably be avoided, or irrigated, in urban areas prone to regular droughts under current or future climate conditions (Büntgen et al., 2021;IPCC, 2022). However, the O 3 forming potential of several MTs is higher than for isoprene (Benjamin and Winer, 1998). ...
... These ecosystems are therefore recognized as natural climate solutions (Duarte et al., 2013;Serrano et al., 2019), while also simultaneously providing a range of ecosystem services such as coastal protection, pollution control, and fisheries habitat (Barbier et al., 2011;Himes-Cornell et al., 2018;Menéndez et al., 2020). They are currently the only marine ecosystems with established methodologies for estimating national inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes (Christianson et al., 2022;IPCC, 2019). For countries with one or more of these ecosystems, the conservation and/or restoration of these ecosystems can lead to an overall reduction in country GHG emissions (Bindoff et al., 2019). ...
... Statistical analyses of questionnaire data (e.g. Stephens et al., 2019;Casado et al., 2020) are often used to quantify the size and significance of any changes, perhaps pre-and post-an event or intervention, in order to evaluate and quantify whether a communication activity was effective. Statistical analysis can also be used as a tool to explore the analytics offered by social media channels (e.g. ...
... In the past decade, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by seaports has accounted for 3-5% of the total global emissions. To improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, research has been conducted on seaports [1,2]. ...
... running the network themselves) and training to acquire grants. ECNs help to address problems facing ECS, for instance, ECS are only rarely involved in reviewing papers (Taylor and Francis, 2015;Silver, 2016), and ECN initiatives have been set up to tackle this (De Vries et al., 2009;Casado et al., 2019). ECN can provide specific training and mentoring directed towards increasing the engagement of ECS with stakeholders and policy makers (Cvitanovic et al., 2015;Timm et al., 2017), for which ECS only have few opportunities (Evans and Cvitanovic, 2018). ...
... Globally, sea-level rise is estimated to reach 0.39-0.84 m by 2100 [59]. These factors have resulted in floods such as the one in 2007, which was particularly devastating as it caused the death of 79 individuals, the displacement of 422,000 people, and the destruction of 1500 homes, with economic losses estimated at US$695 million [60][61][62]. ...
... for future phytoplankton productivity Polar regions are more vulnerable than the global average to ongoing climate changes (Pörtner et al. 2019). The partial CO2 pressure in the atmosphere has already increased from 286 to 420 μatm since the pre-industrial time and climate models project that it will continue to rise up to 700 μatm by the year 2100, if CO2 emissions accelerate with the same tendency (Pörtner et al. 2022). ...
... Seasonal temperature ranges and rainfall patterns are determinants governing the suitability and productivity of agricultural crops and livestock for any given location (Shukla et al., 2020). Crops cultivated, and livestock raised, in developing countries are predominantly species that are well adapted to the local climate, soil, and symbiotic interactions with other native species. ...
... Concerns about implementing solutions to address climate change have increased during the last decades due to its consequences for society, involving both national governments and companies (Akbaş & Canikli, 2018;Amran et al., 2011;Moya-Clemente et al., 2019). This interest has motivated the development of different international agreements to avoid an increase in global temperature, with governments and companies expressing their willingness to be part of the solutions, from the Rio Earth Summit and the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement and COP 26 Summit (IPCC, 2018;Wijen & Ansari, 2012). ...