Impacts of marine heatwaves in coastal ecosystems depend on local environmental conditions

S Starko, M van der Mheen… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), increasing in duration and intensity because of climate change,
are now a major threat to marine life and can have lasting effects on the structure and …

Sustainable seaweed aquaculture and climate change in the North Atlantic: challenges and opportunities

RJ Veenhof, MT Burrows, AD Hughes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Seaweed aquaculture is gaining traction globally as a solution to many climate issues.
However, seaweeds themselves are also under threat of anthropogenically driven climate …

Kelp forest diversity under projected end‐of‐century climate change

J Assis, E Fragkopoulou, L Gouvêa… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Future climate change threatens marine forests across the world, potentially disrupting
ecosystem function and services. Nonetheless, the direction and intensity of climate …

Upscaling marine forest restoration: challenges, solutions and recommendations from the Green Gravel Action Group

GV Wood, K Filbee-Dexter, MA Coleman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction To counteract the rapid loss of marine forests globally and meet international
commitments of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Convention on …

Marine protected areas can be useful but are not a silver bullet for kelp conservation

K Filbee‐Dexter, S Starko, A Pessarrodona… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forests are among the most valuable ecosystems on Earth, but they are increasingly
being degraded and lost due to a range of human‐related stressors, leading to recent calls …

Heat stress analysis suggests a genetic basis for tolerance in Macrocystis pyrifera across developmental stages

M Harden, M Kovalev, G Molano, C Yorke… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Kelps are vital for marine ecosystems, yet the genetic diversity underlying their capacity to
adapt to climate change remains unknown. In this study, we focused on the kelp Macrocystis …

Photoperiod and temperature interactions drive the latitudinal distribution of Laminaria hyperborea (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) under climate change

N Diehl, P Laeseke, I Bartsch, M Bligh… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to global rises in temperature, recent studies predict marine species shifting toward
higher latitudes. We investigated the impact of interacting abiotic drivers on the distribution …

Loss, resilience and recovery of kelp forests in a region of rapid ocean warming

KA Krumhansl, CM Brooks, JB Lowen… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Changes in kelp abundances on regional scales have been
highly variable over the past half-century owing to strong effects of local and regional …

State of the world's kelp forests

AM Eger, N Eddy, TA McHugh, N Arafeh-Dalmau… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Kelp forests, vital to global biodiversity and coastal economies, face degradation and
underfunded conservation. The" State of the World's Kelp Forests" finds that 16% of the kelp …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing Atlantic Kelp Forest Restoration Efforts in Southern Europe

AFS Marques, Á Sanchéz-Gallego, RR Correia… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Kelp forests are essential marine ecosystems increasingly compromised by human
activities. Effective reforestation strategies are urgently needed, and the “green gravel” …