Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies

CM Free, SC Anderson, EA Hellmers… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves are increasingly affecting marine ecosystems, with cascading impacts on
coastal economies, communities, and food systems. Studies of heatwaves provide crucial …

Synchronized multidecadal trends and regime shifts in North Atlantic plankton populations

A Bode - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent changes in oceanic plankton are being reported at unprecedented rates. Most
changes are related to environmental factors, and many were identified as driven by climate …

Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux

DGE Gomes, JJ Ruzicka, LG Crozier, DD Huff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local
environmental conditions. The individual and population-level impacts of prolonged …

Influence of nutrient supply on plankton microbiome biodiversity and distribution in a coastal upwelling region

CC James, AD Barton, LZ Allen, RH Lampe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The ecological and oceanographic processes that drive the response of pelagic ocean
microbiomes to environmental changes remain poorly understood, particularly in coastal …

Habitat compression indices for monitoring ocean conditions and ecosystem impacts within coastal upwelling systems

ID Schroeder, JA Santora, N Mantua, JC Field… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Upwelling ecosystems are characterized by intense seasonal productivity that supports
highly dynamic species populations, high diversity of mid and upper trophic levels, and a …

Fisheries surveys are essential ocean observing programs in a time of global change: a synthesis of oceanographic and ecological data from US West Coast Fisheries …

ND Gallo, NM Bowlin, AR Thompson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As climate change and other anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems accelerate in the
21st century, there is an increasing need for sustained ocean time series. A robust and …

An anchovy ecosystem indicator of marine predator foraging and reproduction

HW Fennie, R Seary, BA Muhling… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Forage fishes are key energy conduits that transfer primary and secondary productivity to
higher trophic levels. As novel environmental conditions caused by climate change alter …

Projecting climate change impacts from physics to fisheries: A view from three California Current fisheries

JA Smith, MP Buil, B Muhling, D Tommasi… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by a need for climate-informed living marine resource management, increased
emphasis has been placed on regional end-to-end modeling frameworks designed to …

Seasonal prediction of Arabian Sea marine heatwaves

V Koul, S Brune, A Akimova… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves are known to have a detrimental impact on marine ecosystems, yet
predicting when and where they will occur remains a challenge. Here, using a large …

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Niñas

AR Thompson, R Swalethorp, M Alksne… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
2022 marked the third consecutive La Niña and extended the longest consecutive stretch of
negative Oceanic Niño Index since 1998-2001. While physical and biological conditions in …