Nature – Mariani et al. (2025): The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna
Gaël Mariani, Jérôme Guiet, Daniele Bianchi, Tim DeVries, Nicolas Barrier, Marc Troussellier and David Mouillot, IN: Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64576-8
Although the role of marine macrofauna in the ocean carbon cycle is increasingly understood, the cumulative impacts of fisheries and climate change on this pathway remain overlooked. Here, using a marine ecosystem model, the authors estimate that each degree of warming reduces macrofauna biomass and carbon export by 4.2% and 2.46%, respectively.