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nicolls et al |
- 2 main causes of sea level rise: - thermal expansion - water mass input from land ice melt and water reservoirs |
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deegan et al |
- marsh loss due to: - nutrient enrichment increasing above-ground biomass and decomposition rates of microbes - caused enriched water to get into the sediment and erode it |
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fabry et al |
- ocean acidification - caused by anthropogenic CO2 increase - less oxygen in the ocean - calcified organisms suffer from acidity |
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cardinale et al |
- biodiversity loss reduces ecological processes efficiency |
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adams et al |
- anthropogenic climate change and disease lead to amphibian decline - impacts ecosystem services |
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3 consensus statements for cardinale et al |
- biodiversity increases ecosystem stability - biodiversity impacts are nonlinear and saturating (change accelerated as biodiversity loss increased) - biodiversity loss reduces efficiency of ecological communities |
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nitrogen cycle rundown |
- Atmospheric nitrogen occurs in the atmosphere - Nitrogen is changed into ammonia and ammonium by nitrogen fixation - Ammonia and ammonium are changed into nitrate by nitrification which can then be - taken up by animals through assimilation - Nitrate is changed into atmospheric nitrogen by denitrification. |
