An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot

By T. Wernberg, Dan A. Smale, Fernando Tuya, M. Thomsen, T. Langlois, T. Bettignies, S. Bennett, C. Rousseaux. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems (2014, background): “…change towards the warmer and presumably more stressful end of the distribution, but ecological performance declined (less recruitment, and recruit growth), such that the canopy became more vulnerable to local disturbance and extinction following an extreme heat event (Wernberg et al., 2010, 2013).”
Distribution models predict large contractions of habitat‐forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming (2018, background): “…recent declines of conspicuous seaweeds attributed to global warming around the world, including southern Australia (Johnson et al., 2011; Smale & Wernberg, 2013; Wernberg, Russell, Thomsen et al., 2011; Wernberg, Bennett et al., 2016), Japan (Tanaka et al., 2012), southern (e.g., Díez et al.,…”
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).”
Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave (2018, background): “…of unprecedented scale have been observed in recent history (Hobday et al., 2016), including events in the Northern Mediterranean (2003; Garrabou et al., 2009), offshore of Western Australia (2011; Pearce & Feng, 2013; Wernberg et al., 2013), and in the NW Atlantic (2012; Scannell et al., 2016).”
Tropicalization of fish assemblages in temperate biogeographic transition zones (2014, background): “…range shifts in marine species have already been widely described (Perry et al. 2005, Cheung et al. 2009, 2012, Hawkins et al. 2009, Figueira & Booth 2010, Nicastro et al. 2013, Wernberg et al. 2013) and have been shown to affect ecosystems and fisheries (Sumaila et al. 2011, Cheung et al. 2013).”
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.”
The rise of Laminaria ochroleuca in the Western English Channel (UK) and comparisons with its competitor and assemblage dominant Laminaria hyperborea (2015, background): “Kelps are cool-water species that are stressed by high temperatures (Steneck et al. 2002; Wernberg et al. 2013); thus, seawater warming will affect the distribution, structure, productivity and resilience of kelp forests (Dayton et al. 1992; Wernberg et al. 2010; Harley et al. 2012).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “remained within the thermal tolerance of kelps [164].”
Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species (2017, background): “A recent study in western Australia documented a shift in community structure from kelp beds to turf-forming algae after a heat wave (Wernberg et al. 2013).”
The future of seaweed aquaculture in a rapidly changing world (2017, background): “Physiological responses to temperature are known to be a major determinant of species distributions and can dictate the sensitivity of populations to global warming (Southward et al., 1995; Pearson & Dawson, 2003; Harley et al., 2012; Jueterbock et al., 2013; Wernberg et al., 2013).”