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ArticleEcology and evolution2024

Taxa-dependent temporal trends in the abundance and size of sea urchins in subtropical eastern Australia.

Emily McLaren, Brigitte Sommer, John M Pandolfi, Maria Beger, Maria Byrne

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Emily McLarenSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Group The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8007-2415
Brigitte SommerSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Group The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0617-7790
John M PandolfiSchool of the Environment The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3047-6694
Maria BegerSchool of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences University of Leeds Leeds UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1363-3571
Maria ByrneSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Group The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-9808

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subtropical reefs host a dynamic mix of tropical, subtropical, and temperate species that is changing due to shifts in the abundance and distribution of species in response to ocean warming. In these transitional communities, biogeographic affinity is expected to predict changes in species composition, with projected increases of tropical species and declines in cool-affinity temperate species. Understanding population dynamics of species along biogeographic transition zones is critical, especially for habitat engineers such as sea urchins that can facilitate ecosystem shifts through grazing. We investigated the population dynamics of sea urchins on coral-associated subtropical reefs at 7 sites in eastern Australia (28.196° S to 30.95° S) over 9 years (2010-2019), a period impacted by warming and heatwaves. Specifically, we investigated the density and population size structure of taxa with temperate (

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echinoidsNew South Walespopulation dynamicssea urchinssubtropical reefstransition zone

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