Impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on aquatic ecosystem–A review

M Muruganandam, S Rajamanickam… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
All living things depend on their natural environment, either directly or indirectly, for their
high quality of life, growth, nutrition, and development. Due to the fast emissions of …

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 …

A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

NJ Holbrook, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the
serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely based on …

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 …

Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

KA Krumhansl, DK Okamoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate
and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of …

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 …

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 …

Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes

P Miloslavich, NJ Bax, SE Simmons… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sustained observations of marine biodiversity and ecosystems focused on specific
conservation and management problems are needed around the world to effectively mitigate …

Continent-wide declines in shallow reef life over a decade of ocean warming

GJ Edgar, RD Stuart-Smith, FJ Heather, NS Barrett… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Human society is dependent on nature,, but whether our ecological foundations are at risk
remains unknown in the absence of systematic monitoring of species' populations …