Drivers of plankton community structure in intermittent and continuous coastal upwelling systems–from microbes and microscale in-situ imaging to large scale …

MS Schmid, S Sponaugle, AW Thompson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Eastern Boundary Systems support major fisheries whose early life stages depend on
upwelling production. Upwelling can be highly variable at the regional scale, with …

State of the California Current 2019–2020: back to the future with marine heatwaves?

ED Weber, TD Auth, S Baumann-Pickering… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The California Current System (CCS) has experienced large fluctuations in environmental
conditions in recent years that have dramatically affected the biological community. Here we …

Fisheries surveys are essential ocean observing programs in a time of global change: a synthesis of oceanographic and ecological data from US West Coast Fisheries …

ND Gallo, NM Bowlin, AR Thompson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As climate change and other anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems accelerate in the
21st century, there is an increasing need for sustained ocean time series. A robust and …

Putting the Pacific marine heatwave into perspective: The response of larval fish off southern California to unprecedented warming in 2014–2016 relative to the …

AR Thompson, NJ Ben‐Aderet, NM Bowlin… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave (MHW) induced the warmest 3‐
year period on record in the California Current Ecosystem. We tested whether larval fish …

North Pacific warming shifts the juvenile range of a marine apex predator

KR Tanaka, KS Van Houtan, E Mailander, BS Dias… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract During the 2014–2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of
juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in central California. These …

Responses of ichthyoplankton assemblages to the recent marine heatwave and previous climate fluctuations in several Northeast Pacific marine ecosystems

JM Nielsen, LA Rogers, RD Brodeur… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of climate warming on ecosystem dynamics are widespread throughout the
world's oceans. In the Northeast Pacific, large‐scale climate patterns such as the El …

Anchovy boom and bust linked to trophic shifts in larval diet

R Swalethorp, MR Landry, BX Semmens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although massive biomass fluctuations of coastal-pelagic fishes are an iconic example of
the impacts of climate variability on marine ecosystems, the mechanisms governing these …

Four decades of climatic fluctuations and fish recruitment stability across a marine‐freshwater gradient

DD Colombano, SM Carlson, JA Hobbs… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Investigating the effects of climatic variability on biological diversity, productivity, and stability
is key to understanding possible futures for ecosystems under accelerating climate change …

Habitat compression indices for monitoring ocean conditions and ecosystem impacts within coastal upwelling systems

ID Schroeder, JA Santora, N Mantua, JC Field… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Upwelling ecosystems are characterized by intense seasonal productivity that supports
highly dynamic species populations, high diversity of mid and upper trophic levels, and a …

State of the California Current Ecosystem in 2021: Winter is coming?

AR Thompson, EP Bjorkstedt, SJ Bograd… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In late 2020, models predicted that a strong La Niña would take place for the first time since
2013, and we assessed whether physical and biological indicators in 2021 were similar to …