TITLE:
Intertidal Biodiversity and Their Response to Climatic Variables, Temperature and pH—What We Know
AUTHORS:
P. M. Mohan, V. Swathi
KEYWORDS:
Climatic Variables, Temperature, pH, Salinity, Marine, Biodiversity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Marine Science,
Vol.10 No.4,
September
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: As per the Essential Climate Variables (ESV) of
World Meterological Organisation (WMO),
the physical, chemical and biological
variables critically contribute to the earth’s climate. Among them, the
variables such as temperature and pH in the marine environment may affect
seriously and in turn it has an impact on
the biota, especially in the intertidal environment, where it has brunt force.
According to United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
the datasets should provide the empirical evidence needed to predict the climate change and evoluate the mitigation and adaptation measures. Under this context,
a review was carried out to know what extent marine scientists understand this factor and what level the biodiversity was
evoluated and its impact was analysed in this article. Based on the existing
literature review, it was understood that only a few groups that also only few species from these groups were studied in
this aspect. The remaining groups and their
species and their basic trophic were not
evolved in this aspect. So, the marine
scientific community, environmentalist and
policy makers should take stock on this
aspect and give thrust on this study.