There is growing concern over climate models that project significant changes in the oceans,
with consequences on marine biodiversity and human well-being. However, marine and …

Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the
most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Aim Understanding the relative importance of climatic and non‐climatic distribution drivers
for co‐occurring, functionally similar species is required to assess potential consequences of …

Alginate, a linear polymer consisting of β-D-mannuronic acid (M) and α-L-guluronic acid (G)
with 1, 4-glycosidic linkages and comprising 40% of the dry weight of algae, possesses …

Rapid anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, increasing the
challenge for marine conservation. Strategic conservation planning, and more recently …

Canopy-forming seaweeds sustain critical ecosystem services in coastal habitats. Around
the world, many of these seaweeds are suffering strong declines, mainly attributed to the …

Climate change is driving a redistribution of species and the reconfiguration of ecological
communities at a global scale. Persistent warming in many regions has caused species to …

Nature is the major reservoir of biologically active molecules. The urgent need of finding
novel molecules for pharmaceutical application is prompting the research of underexplored …

Coastal marine ecosystems are threatened by a range of anthropogenic stressors, operating
at global, local, and temporal scales. We investigated the impact of marine heatwaves …