In response to ocean warming and increased stratification, open ocean nutrient cycles are being perturbed and there is high confidence that this is having a regionally variable impact on primary producers. There is currently low confidence in appraising past open ocean productivity trends, including those determined by satellites, due to newly identified region-specific drivers of microbial growth and the lack of corroborating in situ time series datasets. 5.2.2.5, 5.2.2.6
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It must be noted that variability will be greater in the coastal ocean than for the open ocean, which will be important for both hazard exposure for coastal species and the detection of trends. For example, although signals of anthropogenic influences have already emerged from internal variability in the late 20th century for global and basin-scale averaged ocean surface and sub-surface temperature (very likely) (AR5 WGI Summary for Policymakers), their ToE and level of confidence vary greatly at local scales and in coastal seas (Frölicher et al., 2016). Pelagic organisms with small range size may thus be more (or less) at risk to warming with earlier (or later) ToE at the scale of the area that they inhabit. From an observational standpoint, analyses that account for autocorrelation of noise suggest time series of around a decade are sufficient to detect a trend in pH or SST, whereas datasets spanning 30 years or longer are typically needed for detection of emergence at local scales for oxygen, nitrate and primary productivity (Henson et al., 2016).
Most deep seafloor ecosystems globally are experiencing rising temperatures, declining oxygen levels, and elevated CO2, leading to lower pH and carbonate undersaturation (WGII AR5 30.5.7; Section 5.2.2.3). Small changes in exposure to these hazards by deep seafloor ecosystem have been confirmed by observation over the past 50 years. However, analysis using direct seafloor observations of these hazards over the past 15-29 years suggest that the environmental conditions are highly variable over time because of the strong and variable influences by ocean conditions from the sea surface (Frigstad et al., 2015; Thomsen et al., 2017). Such high environmental variability makes it difficult to attribute observed trends to anthropogenic drivers using existing datasets (Smith et al., 2013; Hartman et al., 2015; Soltwedel et al., 2016; Thomsen et al., 2017) (high confidence). Projections from global ESMs suggest large changes for temperature by 2100 and beyond under RCP8.5 (relative to present day variation) (Mora et al., 2013; Sweetman et al., 2017; FAO, 2019). The magnitude of the projected changes is lower under RCP2.6, and in some cases the direction of projected change to 2100 varies regionally under either scenario (FAO, 2019) (high confidence).
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