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 …

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures

MJ Osland, PW Stevens, MM Lamont… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropicalization is a term used to describe the transformation of temperate ecosystems by
poleward‐moving tropical organisms in response to warming temperatures. In North …

Conservation and restoration of mangroves: Global status, perspectives, and prognosis

SS Romañach, DL DeAngelis, HL Koh, Y Li… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests provide critical services around the globe to both human populations and
the ecosystems they occupy. However, losses of mangrove habitat of more than 50% have …

Mangrove forests under climate change in a 2 C world

DA Friess, MF Adame, JB Adams… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The world's nations are committed to keeping global temperature rises to less than 2° C to
avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Such a target is crucial for mangrove forests …

Global-change controls on soil-carbon accumulation and loss in coastal vegetated ecosystems

AC Spivak, J Sanderman, JL Bowen, EA Canuel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal seagrass, mangrove and salt-marsh ecosystems—also termed blue-carbon
ecosystems—play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Much of the organic carbon …

Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

RD Ward, DA Friess, RH Day… - Ecosystem Health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
Inter-related and spatially variable climate change factors including sea level rise, increased
storminess, altered precipitation regime and increasing temperature are impacting …

The impact of climate change on mangrove forests

DM Alongi - Current Climate Change Reports, 2015 - Springer
Mangrove forests have survived a number of catastrophic climate events since first
appearing along the shores of the Tethys Sea during the late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary. The …

Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event

NC Duke, JM Kovacs, AD Griffiths… - Marine and …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
This study records and documents the most severe and notable instance ever reported of
sudden and widespread dieback of mangrove vegetation. Between late 2015 and early …

Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts

PD Wallingford, TL Morelli, JM Allen, EM Beaury… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As Earth's climate rapidly changes, species range shifts are considered key to species
persistence. However, some range-shifting species will alter community structure and …

Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

KC Cavanaugh, JR Kellner, AJ Forde… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Regional warming associated with climate change is linked with altered range and
abundance of species and ecosystems worldwide. However, the ecological impacts of …