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 …

Victim of changes? Marine macroalgae in a changing world

ME Hanley, LB Firth, A Foggo - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Marine macroalgae ('seaweeds') are a diverse and globally distributed
group of photosynthetic organisms that together generate considerable primary productivity …

Rise of Ruppia in Chesapeake Bay: Climate change–driven turnover of foundation species creates new threats and management opportunities

MJS Hensel, CJ Patrick, RJ Orth… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Global change has converted many structurally complex and ecologically and economically
valuable coastlines to bare substrate. In the structural habitats that remain, climate-tolerant …

Marine heatwaves and decreased light availability interact to erode the ecophysiological performance of habitat‐forming kelp species

AV Bass, KE Smith, DA Smale - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal marine ecosystems are threatened by a range of anthropogenic stressors, operating
at global, local, and temporal scales. We investigated the impact of marine heatwaves …

Climate change and species facilitation affect the recruitment of macroalgal marine forests

M Monserrat, S Comeau, J Verdura, S Alliouane… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Marine forests are shrinking globally due to several anthropogenic impacts including climate
change. Forest-forming macroalgae, such as Cystoseira sl species, can be particularly …

The north–south divide? Macroalgal functional trait diversity and redundancy varies with intertidal aspect

A Amstutz, LB Firth, A Foggo, JI Spicer… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Marine macroalgae ('seaweeds') are critical to coastal
ecosystem structure and function, but also vulnerable to the many environmental changes …

Kelp forest diversity under projected end‐of‐century climate change

J Assis, E Fragkopoulou, L Gouvêa… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Future climate change threatens marine forests across the world, potentially disrupting
ecosystem function and services. Nonetheless, the direction and intensity of climate …

Spatiotemporal variability in population demography and morphology of the habitat-forming macroalga Saccorhiza polyschides in the Western English Channel

N Salland, C Wilding, A Jensen, DA Smale - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Large brown macroalgae serve as foundation organisms
along temperate and polar coastlines, providing a range of ecosystem services. Saccorhiza …

Multiscale Spatial Variability and Stability in the Structure and Diversity of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Kelp Eisenia cokeri in Peru

NG King, R Uribe, PJ Moore, HS Earp, A Gouraguine… - Microbial Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Ecological communities are structured by a range of processes that operate over a range of
spatial scales. While our understanding of such biodiversity patterns in macro-communities …

Loss, resilience and recovery of kelp forests in a region of rapid ocean warming

KA Krumhansl, CM Brooks, JB Lowen… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Changes in kelp abundances on regional scales have been
highly variable over the past half-century owing to strong effects of local and regional …