Search Results - "Wernberg, Thomas"
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Rise of Turfs: A New Battlefront for Globally Declining Kelp Forests
Published in Bioscience (01-02-2018)“…Kelp forests are structurally complex habitats, which provide valuable services along 25% of the world’s coastlines. Globally, many kelp forests have…”
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Substantial blue carbon in overlooked Australian kelp forests
Published in Scientific reports (23-07-2020)“…Recognition of the potential for vegetated coastal ecosystems to store and sequester carbon has led to their increasing inclusion into global carbon budgets…”
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Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-03-2013)“…Species distributions have shifted in response to global warming in all major ecosystems on the Earth. Despite cogent evidence for these changes, the…”
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Grazers extend blue carbon transfer by slowing sinking speeds of kelp detritus
Published in Scientific reports (21-11-2018)“…Marine plant communities such as kelp forests produce significant amounts of detritus, most of which is exported to areas where it can constitute an important…”
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Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (22-10-2021)“…Extreme climatic events, including marine heatwaves (MHWs), are altering ecosystems globally, often with profound socioeconomic impacts. We examine how MHWs…”
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A decade of climate change experiments on marine organisms: procedures, patterns and problems
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2012)“…The first decade of the new millennium saw a flurry of experiments to establish a mechanistic understanding of how climate change might transform the global…”
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The renaissance of Odum's outwelling hypothesis in 'Blue Carbon' science
Published in Estuarine, coastal and shelf science (05-07-2021)“…The term ‘Blue Carbon’ was coined about a decade ago to highlight the important carbon sequestration capacity of coastal vegetated ecosystems. The term has…”
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Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century
Published in Nature communications (10-04-2018)“…Heatwaves are important climatic extremes in atmospheric and oceanic systems that can have devastating and long-term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent…”
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Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress
Published in Scientific reports (30-01-2018)“…Genetic diversity confers adaptive capacity to populations under changing conditions but its role in mediating impacts of climate change remains unresolved for…”
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Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services
Published in Nature climate change (01-04-2019)“…The global ocean has warmed substantially over the past century, with far-reaching implications for marine ecosystems 1 . Concurrent with long-term persistent…”
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Forgotten underwater forests: The key role of fucoids on Australian temperate reefs
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-10-2017)“…Kelp forests dominated by species of Laminariales are globally recognized as key habitats on subtidal temperate rocky reefs. Forests characterized by fucalean…”
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A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers
Published in Nature communications (14-06-2019)“…Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely…”
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Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions
Published in Functional ecology (01-06-2019)“…Temperate reefs from around the world are becoming tropicalised, as warm‐water species shift their distribution towards the poles in response to warming. This…”
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Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-07-2016)“…Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic…”
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Categorizing and Naming MARINE HEATWAVES
Published in Oceanography (Washington, D.C.) (01-06-2018)“…Considerable attention has been directed at understanding the consequences and impacts of long-term anthropogenic climate change. Discrete, climatically…”
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Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests
Published in Current biology (06-04-2020)“…Extreme events have profound ecological impacts on species and ecosystems, including range contractions and collapse of entire ecosystems. Although theory…”
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A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves
Published in Progress in oceanography (01-02-2016)“…•Marine heatwaves cause a range of ecological impacts.•Consistent definition of marine heatwaves will advance comparison.•Metrics are defined to uniquely…”
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Genetic tropicalisation following a marine heatwave
Published in Scientific reports (29-07-2020)“…Extreme events are increasing globally with devastating ecological consequences, but the impacts on underlying genetic diversity and structure are often…”
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Physiological responses of habitat-forming seaweeds to increasing temperatures
Published in Limnology and oceanography (01-11-2016)“…Kelps and fucoids are dominant habitat-forming seaweeds along temperate rocky coastlines. Here, we tested the physiological performance of a dominant kelp…”
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Tropical herbivores provide resilience to a climate‐mediated phase shift on temperate reefs
Published in Ecology letters (01-07-2015)“…Climate‐mediated changes to biotic interactions have the potential to fundamentally alter global ecosystems. However, the capacity for novel interactions to…”
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