Intensification and spatial homogenization of coastal upwelling under climate change

D Wang, TC Gouhier, BA Menge, AR Ganguly - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The timing and strength of wind-driven coastal upwelling along the eastern margins of major
ocean basins regulate the productivity of critical fisheries and marine ecosystems by …

Geographical variability in the controls of giant kelp biomass dynamics

TW Bell, KC Cavanaugh, DC Reed… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Coastal marine environments experience a wide range of biotic and abiotic forces that
can limit and punctuate the geographical range and abundance of species through time …

Fundamental contradictions among observational and experimental estimates of non‐trophic species interactions

AK Barner, KE Coblentz, SD Hacker, BA Menge - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The difficulty of experimentally quantifying non‐trophic species interactions has long
troubled ecologists. Increasingly, a new application of the classic “checkerboard distribution” …

Insight into best practices: a review of long-term monitoring of the rocky intertidal zone of the Northeast Pacific Coast

NJ Kaplanis - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
On the shores of the Northeast Pacific Coast, research programs have monitored the rocky
intertidal zone for multiple decades across thousands of kilometers, ranking among the …

Physiological resilience of intertidal chitons in a persistent upwelling coastal region

C Fernández, MJ Poupin, NA Lagos, BR Broitman… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Current climate projections for mid-latitude regions globally indicate an intensification of
wind-driven coastal upwelling due to warming conditions. The dynamics of mid-latitude …

Reduced nearshore warming associated with eastern boundary upwelling systems

R Seabra, R Varela, AM Santos… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coastal marine biodiversity within eastern boundary upwelling systems (EBUS) is closely
linked to the cooler sea temperatures associated with them. It has been suggested that …

Increasing instability of a rocky intertidal meta-ecosystem

BA Menge, SA Gravem, A Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Climate change threatens to destabilize ecological communities, potentially moving them
from persistently occupied “basins of attraction” to different states. Increasing variation in key …

Are meta‐ecosystems organized hierarchically? A model and test in rocky intertidal habitats

BA Menge, TC Gouhier, SD Hacker… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems are shaped by processes occurring and interacting over multiple temporal and
spatial scales. Theory suggests such complexity can be simplified by focusing on processes …

Population structure, genetic connectivity, and adaptation in the Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida) along the west coast of North America

K Silliman - Evolutionary applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Effective management of threatened and exploited species requires an understanding of
both the genetic connectivity among populations and local adaptation. The Olympia oyster …

Predictions of current and potential global invasion risk in populations of lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) under climate change scenarios

KF Loya-Cancino, LE Ángeles-González… - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Populations of lionfish (Pterois volitans Linnaeus, 1758; Pterois miles Bennett, 1828) have
expanded in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea since their introduction …