Functional saturation of Earth’s habitable domains: constraints on land systems and potential in marine environments
I. Valentin Petrescu-Mag, Ioan G. Oroian, Benone Păsărin, O. Călin Safirescu, Petru Burduhos, Ioan Braşovean, Daniela Bordea, Bianca Moldovan, Tudor N. Pojar, Ioan Bănățean-Dunea, F. Camelia Oroian, Praveen Pandey · 2026
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Valentin Petrescu-Mag and a large team of co-authors ask whether Earth's living space is running out in a 2026 review. They define functional saturation as the point where a system can take on no more productive or regulatory work under human pressure, even if bare space remains. Land and ocean face that limit in different ways.
On land, farming and building directly shrink working ecosystems and push past planetary boundaries. At sea, open space abounds, but stress piles up in the coastal zones where seaweed systems thrive. Extra carbon dioxide both feeds marine photosynthesis and acidifies the water. The authors weigh whether seaweed expansion can offset land losses, and find the asymmetry hard to bridge.
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| CREATOR | I. Valentin Petrescu-Mag, Ioan G. Oroian, Benone Păsărin, O. Călin Safirescu, Petru Burduhos, Ioan Braşovean, Daniela Bordea, Bianca Moldovan, Tudor N. Pojar, Ioan Bănățean-Dunea, F. Camelia Oroian, Praveen Pandey |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |