Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits

BP Harvey, KE Marshall, CDG Harley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), discrete but prolonged periods of anomalously warm seawater,
can fundamentally restructure marine communities and ecosystems. Although our …

Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves

MG Jacox, MA Alexander, D Amaya, E Becker… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—periods of exceptionally warm ocean temperature lasting
weeks to years—are now widely recognized for their capacity to disrupt marine ecosystems …

Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events

A Sen Gupta, M Thomsen, JA Benthuysen… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Prolonged high-temperature extreme events in the ocean, marine heatwaves, can have
severe and long-lasting impacts on marine ecosystems, fisheries and associated services …

Lake heatwaves under climate change

RI Woolway, E Jennings, T Shatwell, M Golub… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Lake ecosystems, and the organisms that live within them, are vulnerable to temperature
change,,,–, including the increased occurrence of thermal extremes. However, very little is …

Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries

WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher, VWY Lam, MA Oyinlola… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Extreme temperature events have occurred in all ocean basins in the past two decades with
detrimental impacts on marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. However …

Global change and physiological challenges for fish of the Amazon today and in the near future

A Luis Val, CM Wood - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2022‏ - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Amazonia is home to 15%(> 2700, in 18 orders) of all the freshwater fish
species of the world, many endemic to the region, has 65 million years of evolutionary …

Compound marine heatwaves and ocean acidity extremes

FA Burger, J Terhaar, TL Frölicher - Nature communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Compound MHW-OAX events, during which marine heatwaves (MHWs) co-occur with ocean
acidity extreme (OAX) events, can have larger impacts on marine ecosystems than the …

Bottom marine heatwaves along the continental shelves of North America

DJ Amaya, MG Jacox, MA Alexander, JD Scott… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Recently, there has been substantial effort to understand the fundamental characteristics of
warm ocean temperature extremes—known as marine heatwaves (MHWs). However, MHW …

Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño

N Jiang, C Zhu, ZZ Hu, MJ McPhaden, D Chen, B Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air
temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide …

Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable

H Welch, MS Savoca, S Brodie, MG Jacox… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Marine heatwaves cause widespread environmental, biological, and socio-economic
impacts, placing them at the forefront of 21st-century management challenges. However …