Climate-driven shifts in marine species ranges: scaling from organisms to communities

ML Pinsky, RL Selden, ZJ Kitchel - Annual review of marine …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The geographic distributions of marine species are changing rapidly, with leading range
edges following climate poleward, deeper, and in other directions and trailing range edges …

Unveiling the resistance of native weed communities: insights for managing invasive weed species in disturbed environments

WA Khattak, J Sun, R Hameed, F Zaman… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Weed communities influence the dynamics of ecosystems, particularly in disturbed
environments where anthropogenic activities often result in higher pollution. Understanding …

Management priorities for marine invasive species

S Giakoumi, S Katsanevakis, PG Albano… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Managing invasive alien species is particularly challenging in the ocean mainly because
marine ecosystems are highly connected across broad spatial scales. Eradication of marine …

Marine protected areas, marine heatwaves, and the resilience of nearshore fish communities

SL Ziegler, JM Johnson, RO Brooks, EM Johnston… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic stressors from climate change can affect individual species, community
structure, and ecosystem function. Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are intense thermal …

A roadmap for the restoration of Mediterranean macroalgal forests

E Cebrian, L Tamburello, J Verdura… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Canopy-forming macroalgae play a crucial role in coastal primary production and nutrient
cycling, providing food, shelter, nurseries, and habitat for many vertebrate and invertebrate …

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 …

Trophic redundancy and predator size class structure drive differences in kelp forest ecosystem dynamics

JH Eisaguirre, JM Eisaguirre, K Davis, PM Carlson… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Strong evidence for an intraspecific metabolic scaling coefficient near 0.89 in fish

CL Jerde, K Kraskura, EJ Eliason, SR Csik… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
As an example of applying the evidential approach to statistical inference, we address one
of the longest standing controversies in ecology, the evidence for, or against, a universal …

Management implications of long transients in ecological systems

TB Francis, KC Abbott, K Cuddington… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The underlying biological processes that govern many ecological systems can create very
long periods of transient dynamics. It is often difficult or impossible to distinguish this …

Playing to the positives: using synergies to enhance kelp forest restoration

AM Eger, E Marzinelli, P Gribben… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …