Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction.

ABSTRACT: Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food supply), is projected to affect most deep-ocean ecosystems concomitantly with increasing direct human disturbance. Climate drivers will alter deep-sea biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, and may interact with disturbance from resource extraction activities or even climate geoengineering. We suggest that to ensure the effective management of increasing use of the deep ocean (e.g., for bottom fishing, oil and gas extraction, and deep-seabed mining), environmental management and developing regulations must consider climate change. Strategic planning, impact assessment and monitoring, spatial management, applicat

SUBMITTER: Levin LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496832 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature