Predicting the impacts of climate change on New Zealand's seaweed-based ecosystems

CE Cornwall, WA Nelson, JD Aguirre… - New Zealand journal …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
The impacts of global climate change are threatening the health and integrity of New
Zealand's seaweed ecosystems that provide crucial ecological, economic, and cultural …

Marine heatwaves and decreased light availability interact to erode the ecophysiological performance of habitat‐forming kelp species

AV Bass, KE Smith, DA Smale - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal marine ecosystems are threatened by a range of anthropogenic stressors, operating
at global, local, and temporal scales. We investigated the impact of marine heatwaves …

Marine heatwaves in shallow coastal ecosystems are coupled with the atmosphere: Insights from half a century of daily in situ temperature records

F Cook, RO Smith, M Roughan, NJ Cullen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are extreme ocean temperature events that can have wide-
ranging and pervasive effects on marine species and ecosystems. However, studies of MHW …

Most eastern boundary upwelling regions represent thermal refugia in the age of climate change

M García-Reyes, G Koval, WJ Sydeman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) are regions where wind-driven coastal
upwelling brings deep cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface and may be characterized by a …

Sea level rise in Europe: Observations and projections

A Melet, R van de Wal, A Amores, A Arns… - State of the Planet …, 2023 - sp.copernicus.org
Sea level rise (SLR) is a major concern for Europe, where 30 million people live in the
historical 1-in-100-year event flood coastal plains. The latest IPCC assessment reports …

Long‐term community shifts driven by local extinction of an iconic foundation species following an extreme marine heatwave

S Montie, MS Thomsen - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gradual ocean warming combined with stronger marine heatwaves (MHWs) can reduce
abundances of foundation species that control community structures, biodiversity, and …

Arctic Amplification of marine heatwaves under global warming

Y He, Q Shu, Q Wang, Z Song, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) and total heat exposures (THEs), extreme warming events
occurring across the global oceans, seriously threaten marine ecosystems and coastal …

Future changes in the intensity and duration of marine heat and cold waves: insights from coupled model initial-condition large ensembles

C Deser, AS Phillips, MA Alexander… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The future evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) extremes is of great concern, not only
for the health of marine ecosystems and sustainability of commercial fisheries, but also for …

Long-term warming and record-breaking marine heatwaves in the Hauraki Gulf, northern New Zealand

NT Shears, MM Bowen, F Thoral - New Zealand Journal of Marine …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As global oceans warm, long-term temperature records are critical in understanding and
interpreting warming trends and the significance of marine heatwaves (MHWs) in coastal …

Marine heatwave duration and intensity interact to reduce physiological tip** points of kelp species with contrasting thermal affinities

T Leathers, NG King, A Foggo, DA Smale - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are widely recognized as
pervasive drivers of ecosystem change, yet our understanding of how different MHW …