ArticleEcology letters2022
Disturbance and nutrients synchronise kelp forests across scales through interacting Moran effects.
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- Evidence of Spatial Synchrony in the Spread of an Invasive Forest Pest.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long-Term Data.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Climate change could amplify weak synchrony in large marine ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Drivers of spatiotemporal variability in a marine foundation species.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Broadscale spatial synchrony in a West Nile virus mosquito vector across multiple timescales.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Wave damping by giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up food webs via resource subsidies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Disturbance and nutrients synchronise kelp forests across scales through interacting Moran effects.Ecology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Spatial synchrony is a ubiquitous and important feature of population dynamics, but many aspects of this phenomenon are not well understood. In particular, it is largely unknown how multiple environmental drivers interact to determine synchrony via Moran effects, and how these impacts vary across spatial and temporal scales. Using new wavelet statistical techniques, we characterised synchrony in populations of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera, a widely distributed marine foundation species, and related synchrony to variation in oceanographic conditions across 33 years (1987-2019) and >900 km of coastline in California, USA. We discovered that disturbance (storm-driven waves) and resources (seawater nutrients)-underpinned by climatic variability-act individually and interactively to produce synchrony in giant kelp across geography and timescales. Our findings demonstrate that understanding and predicting synchrony, and thus the regional stability of populations, relies on resolving the synergistic and antagonistic Moran effects of multiple environmental drivers acting on different timescales.
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