Sedimentary evidence for a period of rapid environmental change in the Yangtze Delta, China around 150 years ago

2021 ◽  
pp. 104552
Author(s):  
Wenlei Niu ◽  
Luo Zhao ◽  
Adam D. Switzer ◽  
Yang Zhai ◽  
Wentong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Yangtze Delta ◽  
Rapid Environmental Change

scholarly journals Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1768) ◽  
pp. 20180186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Donelson ◽  
Jennifer M. Sunday ◽  
Will F. Figueira ◽  
Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia ◽  
Alistair J. Hobday ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Range Shifts ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Marine Environmental ◽  
Rapid Environmental Change

Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing to a lack of natural and empirical data on the influence of phenotypic adaptation on range shifts of marine species, we provide a general conceptual model for understanding population responses to climate change that incorporates plasticity and adaptation to environmental change in marine ecosystems. We use this conceptual model to help inform where within the geographical range each mechanism will probably operate most strongly and explore the supporting evidence in species. We then expand the discussion from a single-species perspective to community-level responses and use the conceptual model to visualize and guide research into the important yet poorly understood processes of plasticity and adaptation.This article is part of the theme issue ‘The role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change’.

A Sea Country Learning Partnership in Times of Anthropocenic Risk: Offshore Coral Reef Education and Our Story of Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Whitehouse ◽  
Marie Taylor ◽  
Neus (Snowy) Evans ◽  
Tanya Doyle ◽  
Juanita Sellwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Bleaching ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Rapid Environmental Change ◽  
Civic Environmentalism

AbstractThis is a researched account of an offshore coral reef education partnership formed during a time of rapid environmental change (the coral bleaching events in the years 2015 to 2017). The aim of the partnership is to encourage a learning connection with Sea Country. Framed as civic environmentalism, this article explores the dimensions of practice between a reef tourism provider, local schools, a local university, and local Indigenous rangers that enables primary, secondary and university students, rangers, and educators to travel together on day trips to the outer Great Barrier Reef and islands and have immersive and sharing educational experiences. Offshore environmental education and higher quality marine education is increasingly important in the Anthropocene, when Australian reefs are subject to the pressures of climate change and other impacts other impacts that diminish their resilience.

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