Document of bibliographic reference 369019
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- Journal article
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- Impacts of climate change on marine foundation species
- Abstract
- Marine foundation species are the biotic basis for many of the world's coastal ecosystems, providing structural habitat, food, and protection for myriad plants and animals as well as many ecosystem services. However, climate change poses a significant threat to foundation species and the ecosystems they support. We review the impacts of climate change on common marine foundation species, including corals, kelps, corals, seagrasses, salt marsh plants, mangroves, and bivalves. It is evident that marine foundation species have already been severely impacted by several climate change drivers, often through interactive effects with other human stressors, such as pollution, overfishing, and coastal development. Despite considerable variation in geographical, environmental, and ecological contexts, direct and indirect effects of gradual warming and subsequent heatwaves have emerged as the most pervasive drivers of observed impact and potent threat across all marine foundation species, but effects from sea level rise, ocean acidification, and increased storminess are expected to increase. Documented impacts include changes in the genetic structures, physiology, abundance, and distribution of the foundation species themselves and changes to their interactions with other species, with flow-on effects to associated communities, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. We discuss strategies to support marine foundation species into the Anthropocene, in order to increase their resilience and ensure the persistence of the ecosystem services they provide.
- Bibliographic citation
- Wernberg, T.; Thomsen, M.S.; Baum, J.K.; Bishop, M.J.; Bruno, J.F.; Coleman, M.A.; Filbee-Dexter, K.; Gagnon, K.; He, Q.; Murdiyarso, D.; Rogers, K.; Silliman, B.R.; Smale, D.A.; Starko, S.; Vanderklift, M.A. (2024). Impacts of climate change on marine foundation species. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 16(1): 247-282. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-042023-093037
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- Marine
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- open access
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Authors
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- Thomas Wernberg
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- Mads Thomsen
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- Julia Baum
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- Melanie Bishop
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- John Bruno
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- Melinda Coleman
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- Karen Filbee-Dexter
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- Karine Gagnon
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- Qiang He
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- Daniel Murdiyarso
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- Kerrylee Rogers
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- Brian Silliman
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- Dan Smale
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- Samuel Starko
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- Mathew Vanderklift
thesaurus terms
- term
- Corals (term code: 79426 - defined in term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus)
- Kelps (term code: 4539 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)
- Mangroves (term code: 9557 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)
- Resilience (term code: 72685 - defined in term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus)
- Seagrass (term code: 7311 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)
- Storms (term code: 8055 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)
taxonomic terms
- taxonomic terms associated with this publication
- Bivalvia