Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux

DGE Gomes, JJ Ruzicka, LG Crozier, DD Huff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local
environmental conditions. The individual and population-level impacts of prolonged …

The role of marine aquaculture in contributing to the diversity and stability of US seafood production

SE Lester, RR Gentry, HE Froehlich - Marine Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Seafood systems are likely to face increasing environmental, economic, and political
stressors, leading to disruptions to marine ecosystems and to the communities that depend …

Persistence of fish populations to longer, more intense, and more frequent mass mortality events

Ø Langangen, JM Durant - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, mass mortality events have become increasingly common across
taxa with sometimes devastating effects on population biomass. In the aquatic environment …

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Niñas

AR Thompson, R Swalethorp, M Alksne… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
2022 marked the third consecutive La Niña and extended the longest consecutive stretch of
negative Oceanic Niño Index since 1998-2001. While physical and biological conditions in …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management

JK Hopf, JW White - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The establishment of protected natural areas worldwide has surged in the last decade, with
more protected area coverage expected in the future. In the case of marine protected areas …

Selection of planning unit size in dynamic management strategies to reduce human–wildlife conflict

H Welch, OR Liu, L Riekkola, B Abrahms… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation planning traditionally relies upon static reserves; however, there is increasing
emphasis on dynamic management (DM) strategies that are flexible in space and time. Due …

Genetic parentage reveals the (un) natural history of Central Valley hatchery steelhead

LC Goetz, H Nuetzel, DLJ Vendrami… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Populations composed of individuals descended from multiple distinct genetic lineages
often feature significant differences in phenotypic frequencies. We considered hatchery …

Alaska's emergent fisheries processes

M Szymkowiak, A Steinkruger, AL Hayes - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Under climate change, shifts in distributions of commercialized marine species challenge
livelihoods and management in some fisheries and create opportunities in others. Whether …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast

EG Kennedy, M Zulian, SL Hamilton… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Global trends of ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification are not easily
extrapolated to coastal environments. Local factors, including intricate hydrodynamics, high …

Marine heatwaves redistribute pelagic fishing fleets

N Farchadi, H Welch, CD Braun, AJ Allyn… - Fish and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have measurable impacts on marine ecosystems and reliant
fisheries and associated communities. However, how MHWs translate to changes in fishing …