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 …

Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review

R Kelly, A Fleming, GT Pecl… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our
global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine …

Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions

A Vergés, E McCosker, M Mayer‐Pinto… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Temperate reefs from around the world are becoming tropicalised, as warm‐water species
shift their distribution towards the poles in response to warming. This is already causing …

Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems

CR Gervais, C Champion, GT Pecl - Global change biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate‐driven changes in the distribution of species are a pervasive and accelerating
impact of climate change, and despite increasing research effort in this rapidly emerging …

Marine environmental DNA biomonitoring reveals seasonal patterns in biodiversity and identifies ecosystem responses to anomalous climatic events

TE Berry, BJ Saunders, ML Coghlan, M Stat… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Marine ecosystems are changing rapidly as the oceans warm and become more acidic. The
physical factors and the changes to ocean chemistry that they drive can all be measured …

Marine heatwave drives collapse of kelp forests in Western Australia

T Wernberg - Ecosystem collapse and climate change, 2021 - Springer
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are discrete, unusually warm-water events which can have
devastating ecological impacts. In 2011, Western Australia experienced an extreme MHW …

Factors affecting the recovery of invertebrate stocks from the 2011 Western Australian extreme marine heatwave

N Caputi, M Kangas, A Chandrapavan… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The extreme Western Australia 2011 marine heatwave had a lasting effect on the marine
ecosystem and after 7 years, only parts of the ecosystem have showed good signs of …

Prolonged marine heatwaves in the Arctic: 1982− 2020

B Huang, Z Wang, X Yin, A Arguez… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies have indicated that marine heatwaves (MHWs) have had severe impacts on the
marine ecosystem in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, but there have been few …

The microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract of a range-shifting marine herbivorous fish

J Jones, JD DiBattista, M Stat, M Bunce… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Globally, marine species' distributions are being modified due to rising ocean temperatures.
Increasing evidence suggests a circum-global pattern of poleward extensions in the …