ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024
Consequences of kelp forest ecosystem shifts and predictors of persistence through multiple stressors.
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- A systematic review of marine macroalgal degradation: Toward a better understanding of macroalgal carbon sequestration potential.Journal of phycology · 2025Pooled it
- Conspecific mortality and resource availability drive a trait-mediated cascade by modifying sea urchin grazing behavior.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Diel and tidal rhythms drive fish acoustic communities in a European kelp forest.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Marine heatwave and keystone predator loss drive broad-scale decline and hinder recovery of a rocky intertidal kelp.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Sea Urchin Gonad Enhancement and Coloration: Nutritional Strategies and Ecological Considerations.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Community-led management maintains higher predator biomass supporting kelp forests persistence in Baja California.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring biological effectiveness across a very large, coherent network of coastal marine protected areas.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Kelp forest loss and emergence of turf algae reshapes energy flow to predators in a rapidly warming ecosystem.Science advances · 2025Article
- Keystone interdependence: Sea otter responses to a prey surplus following the collapse of a rocky intertidal predator.Science advances · 2025Article
- Drivers of spatiotemporal variability in a marine foundation species.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Seaweed functional strategies, functional groups, and taxon dynamics through a 213-year historical series of Rio De Janeiro Bay.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Consequences of kelp forest ecosystem shifts and predictors of persistence through multiple stressors.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Data needs for sea otter bioenergetics modeling.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ecological communities can be stable over multiple generations, or rapidly shift into structurally and functionally different configurations. In kelp forest ecosystems, overgrazing by sea urchins can abruptly shift forests into alternative states that are void of macroalgae and primarily dominated by actively grazing sea urchins. Beginning in 2014, a sea urchin outbreak along the central coast of California resulted in a patchy mosaic of remnant forests interspersed with sea urchin barrens. In this study, we used a 14-year subtidal monitoring dataset of invertebrates, algae, and fishes to explore changes in community structure associated with the loss of forests. We found that the spatial mosaic of barrens and forests resulted in a region-wide shift in community structure. However, the magnitude of kelp forest loss and taxonomic-level consequences were spatially heterogeneous. Taxonomic diversity declined across the region, but there were no declines in richness for any group, suggesting compositional redistribution. Baseline ecological and environmental conditions, and sea urchin behaviour, explained the persistence of forests through multiple stressors. These results indicate that spatial heterogeneity in preexisting ecological and environmental conditions can explain patterns of community change.
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