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

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 …

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 …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

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 …

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 …