Marine heatwaves

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, S Darmaraki… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and
extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The …

Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events

A Sen Gupta, M Thomsen, JA Benthuysen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Prolonged high-temperature extreme events in the ocean, marine heatwaves, can have
severe and long-lasting impacts on marine ecosystems, fisheries and associated services …

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 …

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 under global warming

TL Frölicher, EM Fischer, N Gruber - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are periods of extreme warm sea surface temperature that
persist for days to months 1 and can extend up to thousands of kilometres 2. Some of the …

[HTML][HTML] Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

ECJ Oliver, MG Donat, MT Burrows, PJ Moore… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Heatwaves are important climatic extremes in atmospheric and oceanic systems that can
have devastating and long-term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent socioeconomic …

A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

NJ Holbrook, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the
serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely based on …

Marine heat wave and multiple stressors tip bull kelp forest to sea urchin barrens

L Rogers-Bennett, CA Catton - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Extreme climatic events have recently impacted marine ecosystems around the world,
including foundation species such as corals and kelps. Here, we describe the rapid climate …