Projected climate change impact on a coastal sea-As significant as all current pressures combined.

ABSTRACT: Climate change influences the ocean's physical and biogeochemical conditions, causing additional pressures on marine environments and ecosystems, now and in the future. Such changes occur in environments that already today suffer under pressures from, for example, eutrophication, pollution, shipping, and more. We demonstrate how to implement climate change into regional marine spatial planning by introducing data of future temperature, salinity, and sea ice cover from regional ocean climate model projections to an existing cumulative impact model. This makes it possible to assess climate change impact in relation to pre-existing cumulative impact from current human activities. Results indicate that end-of-century projected climate change alone is a threat of the same magnitude as the combi

SUBMITTER: Wahlstrom I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541661 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature