ArticleCommunications biology2022
The Blob marine heatwave transforms California kelp forest ecosystems.
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- The impacts of diet on cardiac performance under changing environments.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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- Monitoring Green Sea Turtles in the San Gabriel River of Southern California.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Marine heatwave temperatures enhance larval performance but are meditated by paternal thermal history and inter-individual differences in the purple sea urchin,Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ocean warming has both direct physiological and indirect ecological consequences for marine organisms. Sessile animals may be particularly vulnerable to anomalous warming given constraints in food acquisition and reproduction imposed by sessility. In temperate reef ecosystems, sessile suspension feeding invertebrates provide food for an array of mobile species and act as a critical trophic link between the plankton and the benthos. Using 14 years of seasonal benthic community data across five coastal reefs, we evaluated how communities of sessile invertebrates in southern California kelp forests responded to the "Blob", a period of anomalously high temperatures and low phytoplankton production. We show that this event had prolonged consequences for kelp forest ecosystems. Changes to community structure, including species invasions, have persisted six years post-Blob, suggesting that a climate-driven shift in California kelp forests is underway.
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