Keeping pace with marine heatwaves

NJ Holbrook, A Sen Gupta, ECJ Oliver… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events. They can
have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems—for example, causing mass coral …

The role of kelp species as biogenic habitat formers in coastal marine ecosystems

H Teagle, SJ Hawkins, PJ Moore, DA Smale - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Kelps are ecologically important primary producers and ecosystem engineers, and play a
central role in structuring nearshore temperate habitats. They play an important role in …

[HTML][HTML] The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

AM Eger, EM Marzinelli, R Beas-Luna, CO Blain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the
global ecological and economic value of those services is largely unresolved. Kelp forests …

Rise of turfs: a new battlefront for globally declining kelp forests

K Filbee-Dexter, T Wernberg - Bioscience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Kelp forests are structurally complex habitats, which provide valuable services along 25% of
the world's coastlines. Globally, many kelp forests have disappeared and been replaced by …

The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

A Vergés, PD Steinberg, ME Hay… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate-driven changes in biotic interactions can profoundly alter ecological communities,
particularly when they impact foundation species. In marine systems, changes in herbivory …

Ocean sprawl: challenges and opportunities for biodiversity management in a changing world

LB Firth, AM Knights, D Bridger, AJ Evans… - … and Marine Biology …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
LOUISE B. FIRTH1, ANTONY M. KNIGHTS2, DANIELLE BRIDGER3, ALLY J. EVANS4,
NOVA MIESZKOWSKA5, 6, PIPPA J. MOORE4, NESSA E. O'CONNOR7, EMMA V …

[HTML][HTML] The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

S Bennett, T Wernberg, SD Connell… - Marine and …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Kelp forests define> 8000km of temperate coastline across southern Australia, where~ 70%
of Australians live, work and recreate. Despite this, public and political awareness of the …

[HTML][HTML] Marine sponge derived natural products between 2001 and 2010: trends and opportunities for discovery of bioactives

MF Mehbub, J Lei, C Franco, W Zhang - Marine drugs, 2014 - mdpi.com
Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest
animals are the single best source of marine natural products. The present review presents …

Sea urchin barrens as alternative stable states of collapsed kelp ecosystems

K Filbee-Dexter, RE Scheibling - Marine ecology progress series, 2014 - int-res.com
Sea urchin barrens are benthic communities on rocky subtidal reefs that are dominated by
urchins and coralline algae; in the absence of intense herbivory by urchins, these barrens …

Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem services provided by kelp forests: a northeast A tlantic perspective

DA Smale, MT Burrows, P Moore… - Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forests along temperate and polar coastlines represent some of most diverse and
productive habitats on the Earth. Here, we synthesize information from> 60 years of research …