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 …

Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday, A Sen Gupta… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Anthropogenic climate change is altering the structure and functioning of
ecosystems globally. The upper layers of the oceans have absorbed> 90% of the excess …

Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services

DA Smale, T Wernberg, ECJ Oliver, M Thomsen… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
The global ocean has warmed substantially over the past century, with far-reaching
implications for marine ecosystems. Concurrent with long-term persistent warming, discrete …

High-impact marine heatwaves attributable to human-induced global warming

C Laufkötter, J Zscheischler, TL Frölicher - Science, 2020 - science.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—periods of extremely high ocean temperatures in specific
regions—have occurred in all of Earth's ocean basins over the past two decades, with …

A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

AJ Hobday, LV Alexander, SE Perkins, DA Smale… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been observed around the world and are expected to
increase in intensity and frequency under anthropogenic climate change. A variety of …

Projected marine heatwaves in the 21st century and the potential for ecological impact

ECJ Oliver, MT Burrows, MG Donat… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are extreme climatic events in oceanic systems that can have
devastating impacts on ecosystems, causing abrupt ecological changes and socioeconomic …

Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits

BP Harvey, KE Marshall, CDG Harley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), discrete but prolonged periods of anomalously warm seawater,
can fundamentally restructure marine communities and ecosystems. Although our …

Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves

E Fragkopoulou, A Sen Gupta, MJ Costello… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are becoming increasingly common, with devastating ecosystem
impacts. However, MHW understanding has almost exclusively relied on sea surface …

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 …

Marine heatwaves exacerbate climate change impacts for fisheries in the northeast Pacific

WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have occurred in all ocean basins with severe negative impacts
on coastal and ocean ecosystems. The northeast Pacific 2013–2015 MHW in particular …