Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday, A Sen Gupta… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Anthropogenic climate change is altering the structure and functioning of
ecosystems globally. The upper layers of the oceans have absorbed> 90% of the excess …

Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries

WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher, VWY Lam, MA Oyinlola… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Extreme temperature events have occurred in all ocean basins in the past two decades with
detrimental impacts on marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. However …

Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves

E Fragkopoulou, A Sen Gupta, MJ Costello… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are becoming increasingly common, with devastating ecosystem
impacts. However, MHW understanding has almost exclusively relied on sea surface …

Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies

CM Free, SC Anderson, EA Hellmers… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves are increasingly affecting marine ecosystems, with cascading impacts on
coastal economies, communities, and food systems. Studies of heatwaves provide crucial …

Marine heatwaves are not a dominant driver of change in demersal fishes

AL Fredston, WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher, ZJ Kitchel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves have been linked to negative ecological effects in recent decades,. If
marine heatwaves regularly induce community reorganization and biomass collapses in …

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 …

Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux

DGE Gomes, JJ Ruzicka, LG Crozier, DD Huff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local
environmental conditions. The individual and population-level impacts of prolonged …

Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators

ML Arimitsu, JF Piatt, S Hatch, RM Suryan… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During the Pacific marine heatwave of 2014–2016, abundance and quality of several key
forage fish species in the Gulf of Alaska were simultaneously reduced throughout the …

Heatwave restructures marine intertidal communities across a stress gradient

MA Whalen, S Starko, SC Lindstrom, PT Martone - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Significant questions remain about how ecosystems that are structured by abiotic stress will
be affected by climate change. Warmer temperatures are hypothesized to shift species along …