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 …

Effects of ocean acidification on marine photosynthetic organisms under the concurrent influences of warming, UV radiation, and deoxygenation

K Gao, J Beardall, DP Häder… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The oceans take up over 1 million tons of anthropogenic CO2 per hour, increasing dissolved
p CO2 and decreasing seawater pH in a process called ocean acidification (OA). At the …

“Pink power”—the importance of coralline algal beds in the oceanic carbon cycle

N Schubert, F Tuya, V Peña, PA Horta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current evidence suggests that macroalgal-dominated habitats are important contributors to
the oceanic carbon cycle, though the role of those formed by calcifiers remains controversial …

Levelling-up rhodolith-bed science to address global-scale conservation challenges

F Tuya, N Schubert, J Aguirre, D Basso… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global marine conservation remains fractured by an imbalance in research efforts and policy
actions, limiting progression towards sustainability. Rhodolith beds represent a prime …

Understanding coralline algal responses to ocean acidification: Meta‐analysis and synthesis

CE Cornwall, BP Harvey, S Comeau… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification (OA) is a major threat to the persistence of biogenic reefs throughout the
world's ocean. Coralline algae are comprised of high magnesium calcite and have long …

A review of rhodolith/maerl beds of the Italian seas

M Ingrassia, M Pierdomenico, D Casalbore, FG Falese… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coralline algal beds are comprised of biogenic calcareous formations considered a habitat
of high conservation interest, hosting a high great biodiversity. To assess the status of this …

Bottom trawling threatens future climate refugia of rhodoliths globally

E Fragkopoulou, EA Serrão, PA Horta… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate driven range shifts are driving the redistribution of marine species and threatening
the functioning and stability of marine ecosystems. For species that are the structural basis of …

Positive species interactions structure rhodolith bed communities at a global scale

F Bulleri, N Schubert, JM Hall‐Spencer… - Biological …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Rhodolith beds are diverse and globally distributed habitats. Nonetheless, the role of
rhodoliths in structuring the associated species community through a hierarchy of positive …

Impacts of ocean acidification under multiple stressors on typical organisms and ecological processes

K Gao, G Gao, Y Wang, S Dupont - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2020 - Springer
The oceans are taking up over one million tons of fossil CO 2 per hour, resulting in
increased p CO 2 and declining pH, leading to ocean acidification (OA). At the same time …

Coralline algae in a changing Mediterranean Sea: how can we predict their future, if we do not know their present?

F Rindi, JC Braga, S Martin, V Peña… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this review we assess the state of knowledge for the coralline algae of the Mediterranean
Sea, a group of calcareous seaweeds imperfectly known and considered highly vulnerable …