This study summarizes past research exploring how three climate change stressors — warming, acidification, and storms — affect marine life on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.

Read this open access paper on the FACETS website.

We identified 155 distinct ways in which climate change affects marine life. Many marine species are exposed to several effects, but studies typically only look at a few of these effects together. The effects varied by species and location, showing the need for local research.

Finally, the impacts of climate change can be complex and even contradictory: some beneficial effects identified in one setting can be harmful in another.

Read the paper — The many pathways of climate change affecting coastal ecosystems: a case study of western Vancouver Island, Canada by Emie Woodburn, Cathryn C. Murray, Edward J. Gregr, Kai M.A. Chan, and Andy Stock.