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Global Change and the Future Ocean publishes research on global pressures on the ocean in the past, present and future and their consequences on ecosystem functioning and structure, as well as on the benefits to society received from a healthy ocean in the future. (Photo: courtesy of Chris Parsons).
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Global Change and the Future Ocean publishes research on global pressures on the ocean in the past, present and future and their consequences on ecosystem functioning and structure, as well as on the benefits to society received from a healthy ocean in the future. A growing human population, increased resource consumption and activity are now generating changes that are global in scale, including anthropogenic climate change, changes in stratospheric ozone and UV-B radiation levels, changes in global carbon budgets, nitrogen and other elements, emissions of pollutants, land-use change and overexploitation of living resources. These and other changes translate into significant pressures on the ocean operating at a global scale, including increased ocean warming and stratification, increased UV-B levels, sea level rise, ocean acidification, eutrophication, pollution, de-oxygenation and hypoxia, habitat loss, proliferation of invasive species, biodiversity decline and overfishing, among others. These changes are most intense in the coastal zone, where most of these pressures converge, but they spread even to the most remote regions of the ocean. Understanding the impact of these multiple stressors on the oceanic ecosystem is a daunting task. It requires the combination of experimental research, the use of paleo-reconstructions as proxies, comparative analyses and modeling to improve our understanding of responses and to increase our capacity to attribute changes in the ocean ecosystem to global pressures and to forecast its future trajectories. This specialty section provides a forum for the growing research community focusing on global changes in the ocean to share their research results, derived using any of the approaches outlined above, and to collectively contribute to forecasting how ocean ecosystems may be configured and function in the future. The section also welcomes submissions on managerial and societal drivers, as well as responses and perceptions on global changes in the ocean ecosystem. It will benefit from the rapid, robust and effective editorial process and the open-access structure of Frontiers in Marine Science, thereby accelerating progress in this important topic. The Research Topics hosted within Frontiers in Marine Science provide a particularly effective platform to introduce new developments and research directions on Global Change and the Future Ocean.Indexed in: Scopus, DOAJ, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Proquest ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
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Global Change and the Future Ocean welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Brief Research Report, Correction, Data Report, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Policy Brief, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Global Change and the Future Ocean, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Global Change and the Future Ocean will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Marine Science.
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