Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem.
Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a rapid climate-driven regime shift of Australian temperate reef communities, which lost their defining kelp forests and...
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| author | Wernberg, T. Bennett, Scott Babcock, R. de Bettignies, T. Cure, K. Depczynski, M. Dufois, F. Fromont, J. Fulton, C. Hovey, R. Harvey, Euan Holmes, T. Kendrick, G. Radford, B. Santana Garcon, Julia Saunders, Ben Smale, D. Thomsen, M. Tuckett, C. Tuya, F. Vanderklift, M. Wilson, S. |
| author_facet | Wernberg, T. Bennett, Scott Babcock, R. de Bettignies, T. Cure, K. Depczynski, M. Dufois, F. Fromont, J. Fulton, C. Hovey, R. Harvey, Euan Holmes, T. Kendrick, G. Radford, B. Santana Garcon, Julia Saunders, Ben Smale, D. Thomsen, M. Tuckett, C. Tuya, F. Vanderklift, M. Wilson, S. |
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| description | Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a rapid climate-driven regime shift of Australian temperate reef communities, which lost their defining kelp forests and became dominated by persistent seaweed turfs. After decades of ocean warming, extreme marine heat waves forced a 100-kilometer range contraction of extensive kelp forests and saw temperate species replaced by seaweeds, invertebrates, corals, and fishes characteristic of subtropical and tropical waters. This community-wide tropicalization fundamentally altered key ecological processes, suppressing the recovery of kelp forests. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-311332019-02-19T05:35:24Z Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. Wernberg, T. Bennett, Scott Babcock, R. de Bettignies, T. Cure, K. Depczynski, M. Dufois, F. Fromont, J. Fulton, C. Hovey, R. Harvey, Euan Holmes, T. Kendrick, G. Radford, B. Santana Garcon, Julia Saunders, Ben Smale, D. Thomsen, M. Tuckett, C. Tuya, F. Vanderklift, M. Wilson, S. Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a rapid climate-driven regime shift of Australian temperate reef communities, which lost their defining kelp forests and became dominated by persistent seaweed turfs. After decades of ocean warming, extreme marine heat waves forced a 100-kilometer range contraction of extensive kelp forests and saw temperate species replaced by seaweeds, invertebrates, corals, and fishes characteristic of subtropical and tropical waters. This community-wide tropicalization fundamentally altered key ecological processes, suppressing the recovery of kelp forests. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31133 10.1126/science.aad8745 The American Association for the Advancement of Science fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wernberg, T. Bennett, Scott Babcock, R. de Bettignies, T. Cure, K. Depczynski, M. Dufois, F. Fromont, J. Fulton, C. Hovey, R. Harvey, Euan Holmes, T. Kendrick, G. Radford, B. Santana Garcon, Julia Saunders, Ben Smale, D. Thomsen, M. Tuckett, C. Tuya, F. Vanderklift, M. Wilson, S. Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title_full | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title_fullStr | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title_short | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| title_sort | climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31133 |