Climate Change and Latitudinal Patterns of Intertidal Thermal Stress

By Brian Helmuth, Christopher D. G. Harley, Patricia M. Halpin, Michael J. O’Donnell, Gretchen E. Hofmann, Carol Blanchette. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Oceanography

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Climate warming and ectotherm body size – from individual physiology to community ecology (2013, background): “Furthermore, organism responses to climate warming may dependent on regional patterns in climate warming, and the increasing frequency of extreme events (Helmuth et al. 2002; Hoffmann, Sorensen & Loeschcke 2003).”
Living in the now: physiological mechanisms to tolerate a rapidly changing environment. (2010, background): “Regional scale processes are likely a better indicator of geographic range limits (62, 139).”
Robolimpets: measuring intertidal body temperatures using biomimetic loggers (2009, background): “…Tidbit loggers, widely used for measuring intertidal organismal temperatures in the west coast of the United States (e.g., Helmuth and Hofmann 2001; Helmuth et al. 2002; Fitzhenry et al. 2004), can be modified to mimic only relatively large animals such as California mussels (Mytilus waterproof…”
Climate-driven range changes in Tasmanian intertidal fauna (2010, background): “Additional site-specific environmental data are also likely to be important in predicting responses such as tidal regimes and thermal properties of substrates (Helmuth et al. 2002).”
How to avoid errors when quantifying thermal environments (2014, background): “Thus, efforts to predict impacts of environmental change on the distribution and abundance of animals demand models with many independent variables (Buckley 2008; Kearney & Porter 2009), mapped at fine spatial and temporal resolutions (Helmuth & Hofmann 2001; Helmuth et al. 2002; Sears, Raskin & Ang”
Interactive Effects of Water Temperature and Salinity on Growth and Mortality of Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea virginica: A Meta-Analysis Using 40 Years of Monitoring Data (2017, background): “…provide opportunities for building regionally relevant species and habitat models, along with a better understanding of processes operating over extended temporal scales (Helmuth et al. 2002, Henderson et al. 2011, Jetz et al. 2012, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2017).”
Effect of salinity and temperature on feeding physiology and scope for growth of an invasive species (Brachidontes pharaonis - MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA) within the Mediterranean sea (2008, background): “For example, salinity, temperature, storms and wave activity during high tides, and local irradiance, elevated air temperatures and precipitation at low tides, are detrimental for native species and intertidal biodiversity (sensu Helmuth, 1999; Helmuth et al., 2002; Worm et al., 2006).”
Geographic variation in the upper thermal limits of an intertidal snail: implications for climate envelope models. (2009, methodology): “…characterization of thermal regimes experienced by our study populations is needed, our results are consistent with recent studies indicating that thermal stress on intertidal organisms may be more pronounced in Oregon than in central California (Helmuth et al. 2002, Sagarin & Somero 2006).”
The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity (2014, background): “Ocean currents and tidal cycles disrupt the correlation between thermal environment and latitude over much of the world’s coastline (e.g., Helmuth et al. 2002).”
Frayed at the edges: selective pressure and adaptive response to abiotic stressors are mismatched in low diversity edge populations (2009, background): “A factor that may well moderate thermal stress on rocky shores in the Iberian peninsula is the marked latitudinal variation in the timing of lowest spring tides (Helmuth et al. 2002; Schmidt et al. 2008), which occur in mid-morning in N.”
Local adaptation in marine invertebrates. (2011, neutral): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. (Helmuth et al. 2002).”
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly changing world (2014, background): “The importance of local and regional drivers such as wave splash and the timing of the tides is known to create geographic mosaics in stress in intertidal ecosystems, so that physiological stress is not well correlated with latitude for some species [1,36,81].”
Adaptation and the physiology of ocean acidification (2013, positive): “Because of the linear temperature gradient, species distributions are expected to shift poleward with increasing temperatures (with some important exceptions; see Helmuth et al. 2002).”
Spatial patterns of growth in the mussel, Mytilus californianus, across a major oceanographic and biogeographic boundary at Point Conception, California, USA (2007, methodology): “Body temperature is a more effective measure of the thermal tolerance or “stress” of an intertidal organism than traditional measures of water or air temperature (Helmuth and Hofmann, 2001; Helmuth, 2002; Helmuth et al., 2002).”
Local‐ and regional‐scale effects of wave exposure, thermal stress, and absolute versus effective shore level on patterns of intertidal zonation (2003, background): “The size, shape, color, and thermal inertia (mass 3 specific heat) of these mussel mimics were designed to approximate the thermal characteristics of live mussels of similar size (Helmuth and Hofmann 2001; Helmuth et al. 2002).”