ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Population collapse of habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean: a long-term study of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Heatwave-driven persistent microbes threaten the resilience of Mediterranean coral holobionts.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- When resilience is not enough: 2022 extreme marine heatwave threatens climatic refugia for a habitat-forming Mediterranean octocoral.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef.Science advances · 2025Article
- The Octocoral Trait Database: a global database of trait information for octocoral species.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Reconstruction of long-term sublethal effects of warming on a temperate coral in a climate change hotspot.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Recurrent Extreme Climatic Events Are Driving Gorgonian Populations to Local Extinction: Low Adaptive Potential to Marine Heatwaves.Global change biology · 2024Article
- Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Cross-basin and cross-taxa patterns of marine community tropicalization and deborealization in warming European seas.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effect of Acute Thermal Stress Exposure on Ecophysiological Traits of the Mediterranean SpongeBiology · 2023Article
- Lethal and sublethal effects of thermal stress on octocorals early life-history stages.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Population collapse of habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean: a long-term study of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Understanding the resilience of temperate reefs to climate change requires exploring the recovery capacity of their habitat-forming species from recurrent marine heatwaves (MHWs). Here, we show that, in a Mediterranean highly enforced marine protected area established more than 40 years ago, habitat-forming octocoral populations that were first affected by a severe MHW in 2003 have not recovered after 15 years. Contrarily, they have followed collapse trajectories that have brought them to the brink of local ecological extinction. Since 2003, impacted populations of the red gorgonian
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