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- Climate change is significantly affecting marine ecosystems, creating complex challenges for predicting food web dynamics and managing marine resources.
- Sustained observations at the West Antarctic Peninsula reveal that rapid environmental changes are linked to shifts in marine food webs, impacting species from the base to apex predators.
- To better understand these changes and their future implications, new data collection strategies, including robotic networks and satellites, are essential for improving models that study polar ecosystems under climate change.
Article Abstract
Climate change will alter marine ecosystems; however, the complexity of the food webs, combined with chronic undersampling, constrains efforts to predict their future and to optimally manage and protect marine resources. Sustained observations at the West Antarctic Peninsula show that in this region, rapid environmental change has coincided with shifts in the food web, from its base up to apex predators. New strategies will be required to gain further insight into how the marine climate system has influenced such changes and how it will do so in the future. Robotic networks, satellites, ships, and instruments mounted on animals and ice will collect data needed to improve numerical models that can then be used to study the future of polar ecosystems as climate change progresses.
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