Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Science. 2010 Jun 18;328(5985):1520-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1185779.
Climate change will alter marine ecosystems; however, the complexity of the food webs, combined with chronic undersampling, constrains efforts to predict their future and to optimally manage and protect marine resources. Sustained observations at the West Antarctic Peninsula show that in this region, rapid environmental change has coincided with shifts in the food web, from its base up to apex predators. New strategies will be required to gain further insight into how the marine climate system has influenced such changes and how it will do so in the future. Robotic networks, satellites, ships, and instruments mounted on animals and ice will collect data needed to improve numerical models that can then be used to study the future of polar ecosystems as climate change progresses.
气候变化将改变海洋生态系统；然而，食物网的复杂性，加上长期的欠采样，限制了预测其未来和优化管理及保护海洋资源的努力。在西南极半岛的持续观测表明，在这一地区，快速的环境变化与食物网的转变同时发生，从基础到顶级掠食者都发生了变化。需要新的策略来进一步了解海洋气候系统是如何影响这些变化的，以及在未来它将如何影响这些变化。机器人网络、卫星、船只和安装在动物和冰上的仪器将收集数据，这些数据可用于改进数值模型，然后可用于研究随着气候变化的推进，极地生态系统的未来。
