Impacts of climate change on marine foundation species

T Wernberg, MS Thomsen, JK Baum… - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Marine foundation species are the biotic basis for many of the world's coastal ecosystems,
providing structural habitat, food, and protection for myriad plants and animals as well as …

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures

MJ Osland, PW Stevens, MM Lamont… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropicalization is a term used to describe the transformation of temperate ecosystems by
poleward‐moving tropical organisms in response to warming temperatures. In North …

Responses of marine organisms to climate change across oceans

ES Poloczanska, MT Burrows, CJ Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that
have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of …

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

A Vergés, PD Steinberg, ME Hay… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate-driven changes in biotic interactions can profoundly alter ecological communities,
particularly when they impact foundation species. In marine systems, changes in herbivory …

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of tropicalisation

KM Zarzyczny, M Rius, ST Williams… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Tropicalisation is a marine phenomenon arising from contemporary climate change, and is
characterised by the range expansion of tropical/subtropical species and the retraction of …

The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries

AK Whitfield - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2017 - Springer
Each year millions of larval and 0+ juvenile fishes are recruited into estuarine fish
populations around the world. For several decades the roles of littoral aquatic and emergent …

Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries

UR Sumaila, WWL Cheung, VWY Lam, D Pauly… - Nature climate …, 2011 - nature.com
Global marine fisheries are underperforming economically because of overfishing, pollution
and habitat degradation. Added to these threats is the looming challenge of climate change …

Improvements in reports of species redistribution under climate change are required

S Taheri, B Naimi, C Rahbek, MB Araújo - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Studies have documented climate change–induced shifts in species distributions but
uncertainties associated with data and methods are typically unexplored. We reviewed 240 …

Tropical rabbitfish and the deforestation of a warming temperate sea

A Vergés, F Tomas, E Cebrian, E Ballesteros… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A striking example of climate‐mediated range shifts in marine systems is the intrusion of
tropical species into temperate areas world‐wide, but we know very little about the …

Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5 C global warming target

WWL Cheung, G Reygondeau, TL Frölicher - Science, 2016 - science.org
Translating the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5° C above preindustrial level
into impact-related targets facilitates communication of the benefits of mitigating climate …