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Framing biological responses to a changing ocean

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To understand how marine biota are likely to respond to climate change-mediated alterations in ocean properties, researchers need to harmonize experimental protocols and environmental manipulations, and make better use of reference organisms.

Great progress has been made since the 1970s in understanding oceanic processes and their wider role in the functioning of the Earth system1. Global surveys, such as the Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (GEOSECS) have revealed an ocean comprising many provinces, each composed of differing physical, chemical and biological characteristics2. The widespread success of GEOSECS and subsequent mapping of global ocean characteristics has only been possible by implementation of rigorous standardization3.

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  1. Philip W Boyd is at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 129, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia,

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