Forgotten underwater forests: The key role of fucoids on Australian temperate reefs

MA Coleman, T Wernberg - Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forests dominated by species of Laminariales are globally recognized as key habitats
on subtidal temperate rocky reefs. Forests characterized by fucalean seaweed, in contrast …

Responses of coastal ecosystems to climate change: Insights from long-term ecological research

DC Reed, RJ Schmitt, AB Burd, DE Burkepile… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
abstract Coastal ecosystems play a disproportionately large role in society, and climate
change is altering their ecological structure and function, as well as their highly valued …

Spatial variability in the resistance and resilience of giant kelp in southern and Baja California to a multiyear heatwave

KC Cavanaugh, DC Reed, TW Bell… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In 2014–2016 the west coast of North America experienced a marine heatwave that was
unprecedented in the historical record in terms of its duration and intensity. This event was …

Three decades of variability in California's giant kelp forests from the Landsat satellites

TW Bell, JG Allen, KC Cavanaugh, DA Siegel - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global, repeat satellite imagery serves as an essential tool to understand ecological patterns
and processes over diverse temporal and spatial scales. Recently, the use of spaceborne …

Loss of foundation species: disturbance frequency outweighs severity in structuring kelp forest communities

MCN Castorani, DC Reed, RJ Miller - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbances often cause the disproportionate loss of foundation species but understanding
how the frequency and severity of disturbance to such organisms influence biological …

Key principles for managing recovery of kelp forests through restoration

RL Morris, R Hale, EMA Strain, SE Reeves… - Bioscience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing interest in mitigating the loss of kelp forests through restoration, but this
has received scant attention relative to other coastal habitats. We evaluate current …

An automated method for mapping giant kelp canopy dynamics from UAV

KC Cavanaugh, KC Cavanaugh, TW Bell… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Satellite and aerial imagery have been used extensively for mapping the abundance and
distribution of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) in southern California. There is now great …

Resilience of aquatic systems: review and management implications

MC Pelletier, J Ebersole, K Mulvaney, B Rashleigh… - Aquatic sciences, 2020 - Springer
Our understanding of how ecosystems function has changed from an equilibria-based view
to one that recognizes the dynamic, fluctuating, nonlinear nature of aquatic systems. This …

Long-term ecological research and evolving frameworks of disturbance ecology

EE Gaiser, DM Bell, MCN Castorani, DL Childers… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Detecting and understanding disturbance is a challenge in ecology that has grown more
critical with global environmental change and the emergence of research on social …

Variation in thermal tolerance of the giant kelp's gametophytes: Suitability of habitat, population quality or local adaptation?

R Becheler, D Haverbeck, C Clerc… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera is a cosmopolitan species of cold-temperate coasts. Its
South-American distribution ranges from Peru to Cape Horn and Argentina, encompassing a …