Climate impacts on the Gulf of Maine ecosystem: a review of observed and expected changes in 2050 from rising temperatures

AJ Pershing, MA Alexander, DC Brady… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
The Gulf of Maine has recently experienced its warmest 5-year period (2015–2020) in the
instrumental record. This warming was associated with a decline in the signature subarctic …

Patterns, causes, and consequences of anthropocene defaunation

HS Young, DJ McCauley, M Galetti… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the
decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly …

High-impact marine heatwaves attributable to human-induced global warming

C Laufkötter, J Zscheischler, TL Frölicher - Science, 2020 - science.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—periods of extremely high ocean temperatures in specific
regions—have occurred in all of Earth's ocean basins over the past two decades, with …

Marine heatwaves under global warming

TL Frölicher, EM Fischer, N Gruber - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are periods of extreme warm sea surface temperature that
persist for days to months 1 and can extend up to thousands of kilometres 2. Some of the …

Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt

DJ Amaya, MG Jacox, MR Fewings, VS Saba… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Clearly communicating baselines for assessing ocean warming is essential for
understanding extreme events and how they will affect marine ecosystems and livelihoods …

Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific

WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have occurred in all ocean basins with severe negative impacts
on coastal and ocean ecosystems. The northeast Pacific 2013–2015 MHW in particular …

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 …

Ocean regime shift is driving collapse of the North Atlantic right whale population

EL Meyer-Gutbrod, CH Greene, KTA Davies, DG Johns - Oceanography, 2021 - JSTOR
Ocean warming linked to anthropogenic climate change is impacting the ecology of marine
species around the world. In 2010, the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf regions of the …

Projecting shifts in thermal habitat for 686 species on the North American continental shelf

JW Morley, RL Selden, RJ Latour, TL Frölicher… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Recent shifts in the geographic distribution of marine species have been linked to shifts in
preferred thermal habitats. These shifts in distribution have already posed challenges for …

Enhanced warming of the N orthwest A tlantic O cean under climate change

VS Saba, SM Griffies, WG Anderson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment of
projected global and regional ocean temperature change is based on global climate models …