BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are
also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing …

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 …

Abstract During 2014–2016, severe marine heatwaves in the northeast Pacific triggered well-
documented disturbances including mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms, and declines in …

LOUISE B. FIRTH1, ANTONY M. KNIGHTS2, DANIELLE BRIDGER3, ALLY J. EVANS4,
NOVA MIESZKOWSKA5, 6, PIPPA J. MOORE4, NESSA E. O'CONNOR7, EMMA V …

Dispersal costs can be classified into energetic, time, risk and opportunity costs and may be
levied directly or deferred during departure, transfer and settlement. They may equally be …

Biological communities are shaped by complex interactions between organisms and their
environment as well as interactions with other species. Humans are rapidly changing the …

Marine ecosystems are centrally important to the biology of the planet, yet a comprehensive
understanding of how anthropogenic climate change is affecting them has been poorly …

Predicting the impacts of climate change on species is one of the biggest challenges that
ecologists face. Predictions routinely focus on the direct effects of climate change on …

Global marine fisheries are underperforming economically because of overfishing, pollution
and habitat degradation. Added to these threats is the looming challenge of climate change …