Climate change rapidly warms and acidifies Australian estuaries

Estuaries are diverse and important aquatic ecosystems, yet we lack information on their response to climate change. Here, the authors show that east Australian estuaries are warming and acidifying faster than predicted by ocean or atmospheric models; a trend that is magnified in shallow estuaries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elliot Scanes, Peter R. Scanes, Pauline M. Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15550-z