Impacts of climate change on marine foundation species

T Wernberg, MS Thomsen, JK Baum… - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Marine foundation species are the biotic basis for many of the world's coastal ecosystems,
providing structural habitat, food, and protection for myriad plants and animals as well as …

Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

JA Lawlor, L Comte, G Grenouillet, J Lenoir… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Shifts in species distributions are a common ecological response to climate change, and
global temperature rise is often hypothesized as the primary driver. However, the directions …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions

AM Eger, EM Marzinelli, H Christie… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forest ecosystems and their associated ecosystem services are declining around the
world. In response, marine managers are working to restore and counteract these declines …

Impacts of ocean warming on kelp forest ecosystems

DA Smale - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forests represent some of the most diverse and productive habitats on Earth, and
provide a range of ecosystem goods and services on which human populations depend. As …

Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans

ES Poloczanska, MT Burrows, CJ Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that
have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of …

The role of kelp species as biogenic habitat formers in coastal marine ecosystems

H Teagle, SJ Hawkins, PJ Moore, DA Smale - Journal of experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Kelps are ecologically important primary producers and ecosystem engineers, and play a
central role in structuring nearshore temperate habitats. They play an important role in …

The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

A Vergés, PD Steinberg, ME Hay… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate-driven changes in biotic interactions can profoundly alter ecological communities,
particularly when they impact foundation species. In marine systems, changes in herbivory …

Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change

JM Donelson, JM Sunday… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are
also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing …

Severe continental-scale impacts of climate change are happening now: Extreme climate events impact marine habitat forming communities along 45% of Australia's …

RC Babcock, RH Bustamante, EA Fulton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent increases in the frequency of extreme climate events (ECEs) such as heatwaves and
floods have been attributed to climate change, and could have pronounced ecosystem and …