The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

By A. Vergés, Peter D. Steinberg, Mark E. Hay, A. Poore, A. Campbell, E. Ballesteros, K. Heck, D. Booth, M. Coleman, D. Feary and 13 more. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Adaptive marine conservation planning in the face of climate change: What can we learn from physiological, ecological and genetic studies? (2019, background): “…investigations on shifting species distributions as a consequence of successful invasion or in response to shifting environmental conditions (e.g., tropicalization, Verg es et al., 2014) has re-focused attention on physiological tolerance (e.g., Gunderson and Stillman, 2015; Martínez et al., 2015).”
Climate Change Impacts on Seagrass Meadows and Macroalgal Forests: An Integrative Perspective on Acclimation and Adaptation Potential (2018, background): “For macrophytes, increased grazing pressure is likely the most important indirect effect of the tropicalization of temperate seas as herbivores are progressively moving poleward (Vergés et al., 2014; Hyndes et al., 2016).”
Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective (2016, background): “…2007), mammals such as the muskrat in Europe (Danell, 1979; Sarneel et al., 2014), fishes such as the lessepsian rabbitfishes in the Mediterranean (Verges et al., 2014a), molluscs such as the golden apple snail in Asia (Carlsson et al., 2004), and crustaceans such as red swamp crayfish in Europe…”
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).”
Decline and local extinction of Fucales in French Riviera: the harbinger of future extinctions? (2014, neutral): “Depletion of Cystoseira and Sargassum by the teleost Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus 1758) has also been documented (Thibaut et al., 2005; Vergés et al., 2014).”
Can ecosystem functioning be maintained despite climate‐driven shifts in species composition? Insights from novel marine forests (2018, background): “…in many cases, ecological functions provided by kelps have not been replaced following their decline, as they have been superseded by structurally-dissimilar algae (Terazono et al. 2012; Dijkstra et al. 2017) and even completely different foundation species such as corals (Vergés et al. 2014).”
Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios (2015, neutral): “Changes are not synchronous across trophic levels as alterations in body sizes within food webs (47) and in food web composition (48) have been reported.”