Oops that's really old, sorry! On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, 08:55 Andrew Lockley, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Abstract > Climate change has significant implications for biodiversity and > ecosystems. With slow > progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, climate engineering > (or > ‘geoengineering’) is receiving increasing attention for its potential to > limit anthropogenic > climate change and its damaging effects. Proposed techniques, such as > ocean fertilization for > carbon dioxide removal or stratospheric sulfate injections to reduce > incoming solar radiation, > would significantly alter atmospheric, terrestrial and marine > environments, yet potential sideeffects of their implementation for > ecosystems and biodiversity have received little attention. > A literature review was carried out to identify details of the potential > ecological effects of > climate engineering techniques. A group of biodiversity and environmental > change > researchers then employed a modified Delphi expert consultation technique > to evaluate this > evidence and prioritize the effects based on the relative importance of, > and scientific > understanding about, their biodiversity and ecosystem consequences. The > key issues and > knowledge gaps are used to shape a discussion of the biodiversity and > ecosystem implications > of climate engineering, including novel climatic conditions, alterations > to marine systems and > substantial terrestrial habitat change. This review highlights several > current research priorities > in which the climate engineering context is crucial to consider, as well > as identifying some > novel topics for ecological investigation. > > > Keywords > biodiversity, carbon dioxide removal, climate engineering, ecosystems, > geoengineering, solar > radiation managemen > > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1943815X.2016.1159578 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-05m_eQFoSH1zxQs35PeR3XaeiK-7ptb%3DXe%3D3AwN0JK1Rw%40mail.gmail.com.
