Kelp forests are highly productive foundation species along much of the world's coastline. As
a result, kelp are crucial to the ecological, social, and economic well-being of coastal …

Surface-canopy forming kelps provide the foundation for ecosystems that are ecologically,
culturally, and economically important. However, these kelp forests are naturally dynamic …

Climate change is responsible for increased frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme
events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs). Within eastern boundary current systems …

Multihost infectious disease outbreaks have endangered wildlife, causing extinction of frogs
and endemic birds, and widespread declines of bats, corals, and abalone. Since 2013, a …

Marine heatwaves threaten the persistence of kelp forests globally. However, the observed
responses of kelp forests to these events have been highly variable on local scales. Here …

Significant questions remain about how ecosystems that are structured by abiotic stress will
be affected by climate change. Warmer temperatures are hypothesized to shift species along …

Consumer and predator foraging behavior can impart profound trait-mediated constraints on
community regulation that scale up to influence the structure and stability of ecosystems …

Cycling of organic carbon in the ocean has the potential to mitigate or exacerbate global
climate change, but major questions remain about the environmental controls on organic …

Reconstructing phylogenetic topologies and divergence times is essential for inferring the
timing of radiations, the appearance of adaptations, and the historical biogeography of key …

Ecosystems are changing at alarming rates because of climate change and a wide variety of
other anthropogenic stressors. These stressors have the potential to cause phase shifts to …