Seaweed (macroalgae) has attracted attention globally given its potential for climate change
mitigation. A topical and contentious question is: Can seaweeds' contribution to climate …

Tests of hypotheses about the biogeographical consequences of long-distance dispersal
have long eluded biologists, largely because of the rarity and presumed unpredictability of …

Density-dependent processes play a key role in the spatial structuring of biodiversity.
Specifically, interrelated demographic processes, such as gene surfing, high-density …

Macroalgal communities in Australia and around the world store vast quantities of carbon in
their living biomass, but their prevalence of growing on hard substrata means that they have …

Kelp forests are highly productive coastal habitats and are emerging as important sources of
organic matter for other ecosystems. Although their high rates of productivity and detritus …

Postglacial recolonisation patterns are well documented for the Northern Hemisphere biota,
but comparable processes in the Southern Hemisphere have only recently been examined …

Over the past few decades the field of biogeo graphy has expanded with rapid technological
and methodological developments. Th Page 1 Published by the Scientific Committee on …

Kelp forests provide many important ecosystem services to people, including mitigating
storm damage, cycling nutrients, and providing commercially-harvestable resources …

Oceanic rafting is thought to play a fundamental role in assembling the biological
communities of isolated coastal ecosystems. Direct observations of this key ecological and …

Antarctic shallow coastal marine communities were long thought to be isolated from their
nearest neighbours by hundreds of kilometres of deep ocean and the Antarctic Circumpolar …