Kelp aquaculture in China: a retrospective and future prospects

ZM Hu, TF Shan, J Zhang, QS Zhang… - Reviews in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, China has the largest scale of kelp cultivation and production operations. However,
its kelp aquaculture industry is suffering from declining germplasm diversity, degradation of …

Rate and fate of dissolved organic carbon release by seaweeds: a missing link in the coastal ocean carbon cycle

ER Paine, M Schmid, PW Boyd… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release by seaweeds (marine macroalgae) is a critical
component of the coastal ocean biogeochemical carbon cycle but is an aspect of seaweed …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Microclimate predicts kelp forest extinction in the face of direct and indirect marine heatwave effects

S Starko, CJ Neufeld, L Gendall, B Timmer… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves threaten the persistence of kelp forests globally. However, the observed
responses of kelp forests to these events have been highly variable on local scales. Here …

Heatwave restructures marine intertidal communities across a stress gradient

MA Whalen, S Starko, SC Lindstrom, PT Martone - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Significant questions remain about how ecosystems that are structured by abiotic stress will
be affected by climate change. Warmer temperatures are hypothesized to shift species along …

Climate change and species facilitation affect the recruitment of macroalgal marine forests

M Monserrat, S Comeau, J Verdura, S Alliouane… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Marine forests are shrinking globally due to several anthropogenic impacts including climate
change. Forest-forming macroalgae, such as Cystoseira sl species, can be particularly …

Ecological and industrial implications of dynamic seaweed-associated microbiota interactions

F Menaa, P Wijesinghe, G Thiripuranathar, B Uzair… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Seaweeds are broadly distributed and represent an important source of secondary
metabolites (eg, halogenated compounds, polyphenols) eliciting various pharmacological …

Aquaculture Production of the Brown Seaweeds Laminaria digitata and Macrocystis pyrifera: Applications in Food and Pharmaceuticals

D Purcell-Meyerink, MA Packer, TT Wheeler, M Hayes - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Seaweeds have a long history of use as food, as flavouring agents, and find use in
traditional folk medicine. Seaweed products range from food, feed, and dietary supplements …

Impacts of marine heatwaves on algal structure and carbon sequestration in conjunction with ocean warming and acidification

G Gao, X Zhao, M Jiang, L Gao - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As the ocean warms, the frequency, duration, intensity, and range of marine heatwaves
(MHWs) increase. MHWs are becoming a severe challenge for marine ecosystems …

Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high …

E Litchman, MK Thomas - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Warming, the most prominent aspect of global environmental change, already affects most
ecosystems on Earth. In recent years, biologists have increasingly integrated the effects of …