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 …

Impacts of marine heat extremes on bivalves

F Masanja, K Yang, Y Xu, G He, X Liu, X Xu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As the global ocean continues to experience the consequences of an increase in the
frequency and intensity of heat waves, the trend is expected to persist into the 21st century …

The collapse of eastern Bering Sea snow crab

CS Szuwalski, K Aydin, EJ Fedewa, B Garber-Yonts… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The snow crab is an iconic species in the Bering Sea that supports an economically
important fishery and undergoes extensive monitoring and management. Since 2018, more …

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 …

Global impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal foundation species

KE Smith, M Aubin, MT Burrows… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
With increasingly intense marine heatwaves affecting nearshore regions, foundation species
are coming under increasing stress. To better understand their impacts, we examine …

Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide

S Gu, T Qi, JR Rohr, X Liu - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events (EWEs; for example, heatwaves, cold spells, storms, floods and
droughts) and non-native species invasions are two major threats to global biodiversity and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Marine heat waves in the Mediterranean Sea: An assessment from the surface to the subsurface to meet national needs

H Dayan, R McAdam, M Juza, S Masina… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the Mediterranean Sea, marine ecosystems and the resource-based economy are shared
among many countries, making this a regional sea of important geopolitical and economic …

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 …

A marine protected area network does not confer community structure resilience to a marine heatwave across coastal ecosystems

JG Smith, CM Free, C Lopazanski, J Brun… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have gained attention as a conservation tool for enhancing
ecosystem resilience to climate change. However, empirical evidence explicitly linking …