Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

By T. Wernberg, S. Bennett, R. Babcock, T. de Bettignies, Katherine Cure, M. Depczynski, F. Dufois, J. Fromont, Christopher J. Fulton, R. Hovey and 12 more. Science, 2016

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Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century (2016, background): “However, where kelp resilience is eroding and leading to declines in abundance (7, 18, 54, 64, 66, 67), impacts to ecosystem health and services can be far-reaching (19, 25, 26, 68, 69).”
The ‘golden kelp’ Laminaria ochroleuca under global change: Integrating multiple eco‐physiological responses with species distribution models (2018, background): “Examples of effects of temperature changes on patterns of distribution of seaweeds, due to either sporadic heat waves (Wernberg et al., 2013, 2016) or persistent increments in temperature (Lima et al., 2007; Rosenzweig et al., 2008), have been documented across many regions.”
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures (2022, background): “Not only this, the increased water temperatures have exacerbated the conditions far away from the physiological tolerance level of the kelp communities (Vergés et al. 2016; Wernberg et al. 2016).”
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, background): “For example, some reefs are transitioning from coral- to algal-dominated states as a consequence of mass coral mortality (130), whereas kelp forests are turning into rocky barrens in temperate seas (90, 131, 132).”
Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species (2017, background): “Concurrent with this shift was an influx of tropical invertebrate (e.g. coral) and fish species (Wernberg et al. 2016).”
Resistance, Extinction, and Everything in Between – The Diverse Responses of Seaweeds to Marine Heatwaves (2019, background): “attrition), and can result in local to regional extinctions and ultimately range contractions (O’Brien and Scheibling, 2016; Wernberg and Straub, 2016; Wernberg et al., 2016; Smale et al., 2019).”
Mechanisms of Thermal Tolerance in Reef-Building Corals across a Fine-Grained Environmental Mosaic: Lessons from Ofu, American Samoa (2018, background): “…the mechanisms underlying variation in thermal tolerance within and among species has been a central focus of ecology for decades and is becoming increasingly urgent as climate change intensifies environmental stressors and alters species distributions (Somero, 2010; Wernberg et al., 2016).”
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, positive): “The loss of kelp-forest ecosystems in Australia and their replacement by seaweed turfs have been linked to increases in herbivory by the influx of tropical fishes, exacerbated by increases in water temperature beyond the kelp’s physiological tolerance limits (30, 31).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “[162] deduced that such phase shift is caused by a extreme heat wave, with the temperatures exceeded”
Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (2019, background): “For example, co‐occurring cool‐water laminarian kelps and more warm‐tolerant Sargassum species support significantly different associated communities (Coleman & Wernberg, 2017) and a shift from kelp to Sargassum (Tanaka et al., 2012; Wernberg et al., 2016) will likely reflect these changes.”
Physiological responses of habitat‐forming seaweeds to increasing temperatures (2016, background): “In recognition of the risks of losing valuable ecosystem services to climate change (Smale et al. 2013; Costanza et al. 2014; Bennett et al. 2016), studying the potential impact of ocean warming on ecologically and socioeconomically important marine organisms has gathered momentum in recent years (B”
Can ecosystem functioning be maintained despite climate‐driven shifts in species composition? Insights from novel marine forests (2018, background): “For instance, an extreme warming event led to the loss of extensive areas of kelp forests in Australia—which are dominated by a single species of kelp—fundamentally altering ecosystem dynamics and forcing a regime shift to algal turfs (Wernberg et al. 2016).”
The unprecedented coupled ocean-atmosphere summer heatwave in the New Zealand region 2017/18: drivers, mechanisms and impacts (2019, background): “Periods of high temperatures have been associated with regime shifts and loss of kelp forests elsewhere (Wernberg et al 2016).”