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Perspective outlines the ocean's critical climate-stabilizing role under human pressure, indicating the need to integrate marine processes into planetary boundaries.
By regulating Earth’s climate and buffering the impacts of anthropogenic pressures, the ocean plays a crucial stabilizing role in the Earth system – yet, in doing so, it is itself undergoing profound changes. This Perspective outlines the role of the ocean in the Earth system and discusses arguments for incorporating additional ocean processes into the Planetary Boundaries framework.
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