[HTML][HTML] Biological impacts of marine heatwaves

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Predicting the impacts of climate change on New Zealand's seaweed-based ecosystems

CE Cornwall, WA Nelson, JD Aguirre… - New Zealand Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The impacts of global climate change are threatening the health and integrity of New
Zealand's seaweed ecosystems that provide crucial ecological, economic, and cultural …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling seasonal trends in coastal marine heatwave metrics across global biogeographical realms

F Thoral, S Montie, MS Thomsen, LW Tait… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause dramatic changes to ecologically, culturally, and
economically important coastal ecosystems. To date, MHW studies have focused on …

Long‐term community shifts driven by local extinction of an iconic foundation species following an extreme marine heatwave

S Montie, MS Thomsen - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gradual ocean warming combined with stronger marine heatwaves (MHWs) can reduce
abundances of foundation species that control community structures, biodiversity, and …

Seasonal trends in marine heatwaves highlight vulnerable coastal ecoregions and historic change points in New Zealand

S Montie, F Thoral, RO Smith, F Cook… - New Zealand Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased worldwide in intensity, frequency, and duration,
often with severe impacts on ecologically and socio-economically important coastal habitats …

A century of canopy kelp persistence and recovery in the Gulf of Alaska

JA Hollarsmith, JC Cornett, E Evenson… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Coastal Alaska contains vast kelp habitat that supports
diverse marine and human communities. Over the past century, the North Pacific Ocean has …

Genetic impacts of physical disturbance processes in coastal marine ecosystems

E Parvizi, CI Fraser, JM Waters - Journal of Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Coastal habitats are among the most dynamic environments on earth and are highly
vulnerable to large‐scale physical disturbance. Genetic studies of nearshore marine species …

Climate change impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand: a horizon scan approach

C Macinnis-Ng, I Ziedins, H Ajmal… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Many of the implications of climate change for Aotearoa (New Zealand) remain unclear. To
identify so-far unseen or understudied threats and opportunities related to climate change …

Behavioural thermoregulation and food availability drive fine‐scale seasonal habitat partitioning in limpets

SDS Virgin, DR Schiel - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale spatial variation in temperature plays a key role in limiting the distribution of
organisms in thermally heterogeneous environments. In the rocky intertidal zone, intra‐day …

[HTML][HTML] Threshold effects of relative sea-level change in intertidal ecosystems: empirical evidence from earthquake-induced uplift on a rocky coast

S Orchard, HS Fischman, S Gerrity, T Alestra… - GeoHazards, 2021 - mdpi.com
Widespread mortality of intertidal biota was observed following the 7.8 Mw Kaikōura
earthquake in November 2016. To understand drivers of change and recovery in nearshore …