Recovering a lost baseline: missing kelp forests from a metropolitan coast

By S. Connell, B. Russell, D. Turner, S. Shepherd, T. Kildea, David R. Miller, L. Airoldi, A. Cheshire. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography

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Variation in the strength of continental boundary currents determines continent‐wide connectivity in kelp (2011, neutral): “…for the conservation andmanagement of kelp forests, particularly given that anthropogenic stressors are beginning to precipitate significant changes in macroalgal habitats world-wide (e.g. Dayton et al. 1998; Steneck et al. 2002; Airoldi & Beck 2007; Coleman et al. 2008; Connell et al. 2008).”
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).”
Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species (2017, background): “Changes in species composition observed in many temperate reef ecosystems are more rapid than that of terrestrial landscapes or the rocky reef systems in the US Pacific Northwest (Harris & Tyrrell 2001; Connell et al. 2008; Elahi et al. 2013; McIntyre et al. 2015).”
Climate change and disease: bleaching of a chemically defended seaweed (2011, background): “Declines (Coleman et al., 2008; Connell et al., 2008) and diseases (Correa et al., 1994; Littler & Littler, 1995) of macroalgal stands have been reported recently.”
Conservation challenges in urban seascapes: promoting the growth of threatened species on coastal infrastructures (2012, background): “Canopies are suffering widespread habitat loss at global scales (Airoldi & Beck 2007; Connell et al. 2008; Mangialajo, Chiantore & Cattaneo-Vietti 2008).”
The Gray Zone: Relationships between habitat loss and marine diversity and their applications in conservation (2008, background): “…local extinction of kelps and other complex macroalgae have been observed in several countries around theworld likely as a consequence of decreasedwater quality and/or overfishing (Benedetti-Cecchi et al., 2001; Steneck et al., 2002; Guidetti et al., 2003; Graham, 2004; Connell et al., 2008).”
Seasonal Patterns of Sporophyte Growth, Fertility, Fouling, and Mortality of Saccharina latissima in Skagerrak, Norway: Implications for Forest Recovery (2011, background): “Large-scale shift from perennial macrophytes to short lived ephemeral algae is a global problem [1–4].”
The rise of Laminaria ochroleuca in the Western English Channel (UK) and comparisons with its competitor and assemblage dominant Laminaria hyperborea (2015, background): “Other interacting factors such as the amount of incident light (John 1969; Burrows 2012), nutrient and sediment input (Connell et al. 2008; Moy & Christie 2012), storminess (Byrnes et al.”
Turf wars: competition between foundation and turf-forming species on temperate and tropical reefs and its role in regime shifts (2018, background): “On many degraded temperate rocky intertidal and subtidal reefs globally, turf-forming assemblages have replaced canopy-forming brown algae such as kelps and fucoids (Benedetti-Cecchi et al. 2001, Connell et al. 2008, Moy & Christie 2012, Filbee-Dexter et al. 2016, Wernberg et al. 2016).”
Variation in the morphology, reproduction and development of the habitat-forming kelp Ecklonia radiata with changing temperature and nutrients (2013, background): “…and cellular function in their expected ranges (Staehr & Wernberg 2009, Wernberg et al. 2010), leading to reduced growth and survivorship (Dayton et al. 1999, Graham et al. 2007) and ultimately range contractions or local extirpations (van Tussenbroek 1989, Edyvane 2003, Connell et al. 2008).”
Production and fate of kelp detritus (2012, neutral): “Declines in kelp biomass also have occurred in response to coastal pollution (Steneck et al. 2002, Connell et al. 2008, Foster & Schiel 2010) and development and extraction activities that disrupt subtidal habitat (Pulfrich et al. 2003) and cause run-off of toxic materials, warm water, and…”
Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions (2012, methodology): “We evaluated each scenario based upon three metrics with contrasting primary beneficiary groups spanning multiple scales: (i) carbon storage (a global benefit related to climate change mitigation), calculated as the carbon fraction in above- and belowground biomass (Table S2); (ii) water-quality imp”
Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming (2011, background): “…distributions of algae, invertebrates and fish (O'Hara and Poore, 2000; Wernberg et al., 2003, 2010; Tuya et al., 2008a,b; Smale et al., 2010b), population structure and dynamics (Ling, 2008; Wernberg and Goldberg, 2008), and habitat structure (Connell et al., 2008) of temperate marine species.”
The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests (2016, background): “Local stressors are also having an important impact on the health of the GSR. Kelp forests on the eastern (Coleman et al. 2008) and central (Connell et al. 2008) GSR have undergone decline and loss adjacent to intense coastal development as a result of localised pollution including nitrogen…”