ArticleNature communications2024
Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux.
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- Projecting Impacts of Marine Heatwaves and Their Effects on Long-Term Changes in Marine Ecosystems Over the 21st Century.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Estimating the total mortality of seabirds following a marine heat wave.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Marine heatwaves suppress nutrient utilization and reproductive flexibility in humpback whales.iScience · 2026Article
- Network indices show heat wave-induced fragility in experimental food webs: Operational insights for ecosystem management.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Trans-basin linkages prolong Northwestern Pacific marine heatwaves through a circumglobal wave pattern.Science advances · 2026Article
- Shifting stage-specific constraints on productivity shape recovery potential for Yukon River Chinook salmon.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
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- Marine heatwaves are transforming Western mediterranean marine ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Redundancy of macrobenthic functional traits boosts resilience to a simulated heatwave.PloS one · 2026Article
- Habitat Shifts in the Pacific Saury (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Heat Stress and Anthropogenic Substrates: Molecular and Behavioral Adaptation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Seasonally variable thermal performance curves prevent adverse effects of heatwaves.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- The epidemiology of a novelInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- The future of baleen whales: Recoveries, environmental constraints, and climate change.Science advances · 2025Review
- Fishing during extreme heatwaves alters ecological interactions and increases indirect fishing mortality in a ubiquitous nearshore system.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Climate Change and Marine Food Webs: Navigating Structural Uncertainty Using Qualitative Network Analysis With Insights for Salmon Survival.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Effects of in situ experimental warming on metabolic expression in a soft sediment bivalve.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Age, not growth, explains larger body size of Pacific cod larvae during recent marine heatwaves.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An updated end-to-end ecosystem model of the Northern California Current reflecting ecosystem changes due to recent marine heatwaves.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local environmental conditions. The individual and population-level impacts of prolonged heatwaves on marine species have recently been demonstrated, yet whole-ecosystem consequences remain unexplored. We leveraged time series abundance data of 361 taxa, grouped into 86 functional groups, from six long-term surveys, diet information from a new diet database, and previous modeling efforts, to build two food web networks using an extension of the popular Ecopath ecosystem modeling framework, Ecotran. We compare ecosystem models parameterized before and after the onset of recent marine heatwaves to evaluate the cascading effects on ecosystem structure and function in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. While the ecosystem-level contribution (prey) and demand (predators) of most functional groups changed following the heatwaves, gelatinous taxa experienced the largest transformations, underscored by the arrival of northward-expanding pyrosomes. We show altered trophic relationships and energy flux have potentially profound consequences for ecosystem structure and function, and raise concerns for populations of threatened and harvested species.
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