Depth moderates loss of marine foundation species after an extreme marine heatwave: could deep temperate reefs act as a refuge?

Too hot to handle: unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area

(2020) Simone Strydom et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services

(2019) Dan A. Smale et al.   Nature Climate Change

Rise of Turfs: A New Battlefront for Globally Declining Kelp Forests

(2018) Karen Filbee-Dexter et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Depth-related patterns in coral recruitment across a shallow to mesophotic gradient

(2018) Joseph A. Turner et al.   CORAL REEFS

Can mesophotic reefs replenish shallow reefs? Reduced coral reproductive performance casts a doubt

(2018) Tom Shlesinger et al.   ECOLOGY

Categorizing and Naming Marine Heatwaves

(2018) Alistair Hobday et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

(2018) Eric C. J. Oliver et al.   Nature Communications

Emerging risks from marine heat waves

(2018) Thomas L. Frölicher et al.   Nature Communications

Distribution models predict large contractions of habitat-forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming

(2018) Brezo Martínez et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Marine heatwaves under global warming

(2018) Thomas L. Frölicher et al.   NATURE

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Differential vulnerability to climate change yields novel deep-reef communities

(2018) Martin Pierre Marzloff et al.   Nature Climate Change

Deep thinking: a systematic review of mesophotic coral ecosystems

(2017) Joseph A. Turner et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Nearshore and offshore co-occurrence of marine heatwaves and cold-spells

(2017) Robert W. Schlegel et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Marine heatwave causes unprecedented regional mass bleaching of thermally resistant corals in northwestern Australia

(2017) Morane Le Nohaïc et al.   Scientific Reports

Theme section on mesophotic coral ecosystems: advances in knowledge and future perspectives

(2016) Yossi Loya et al.   CORAL REEFS

Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

(2016) Sebastian Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

(2016) Alistair J. Hobday et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

(2016) T. Wernberg et al.   SCIENCE

Benthic community composition on submerged reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef

(2015) T. E. Roberts et al.   CORAL REEFS

Pacific sea surface temperature and the winter of 2014

(2015) Dennis L. Hartmann   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2015) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Deep reefs are climatic refugia for genetic diversity of marine forests

(2015) Jorge Assis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disturbance and climate microrefugia mediate tree range shifts during climate change

(2015) Josep M. Serra-Diaz et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme

(2015) Franziska Althaus et al.   PLoS One

Spatial patterns of warming off Western Australia during the 2011 Ningaloo Niño: Quantifying impacts of remote and local forcing

(2014) Jessica Benthuysen et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Extreme climate events lower resilience of foundation seagrass at edge of biogeographical range

(2014) Matthew W. Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Chronic light reduction reduces overall resilience to additional shading stress in the seagrass Halophila ovalis

(2014) Siti M. Yaakub et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Variable Responses of Benthic Communities to Anomalously Warm Sea Temperatures on a High-Latitude Coral Reef

(2014) Tom C. L. Bridge et al.   PLoS One

Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave

(2014) Nikolaos Christidis et al.   Nature Climate Change

A depth refugium from catastrophic coral bleaching prevents regional extinction

(2013) Tyler B. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Reproductive seasonality and early life temperature sensitivity reflect vulnerability of a seaweed undergoing range reduction

(2013) S Andrews et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species

(2013) D. A. Smale et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Regional-scale benthic monitoring for ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)

(2012) D. A. Smale et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Monitoring of Benthic Reference Sites: Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

(2012) Stefan Williams et al.   IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

The rise and fall of the “marine heat wave” off Western Australia during the summer of 2010/2011

(2012) Alan F. Pearce et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Modelling Deep Water Habitats to Develop a Spatially Explicit, Fine Scale Understanding of the Distribution of the Western Rock Lobster, Panulirus cygnus

(2012) Renae K. Hovey et al.   PLoS One

Turning up the Heat: Increasing Temperature and Coral Bleaching at the High Latitude Coral Reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands

(2012) David A. Abdo et al.   PLoS One

An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Thomas Wernberg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Refugia: identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change

(2011) Gunnar Keppel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The role of deep reefs in shallow reef recovery: an assessment of vertical connectivity in a brooding coral from west and east Australia

(2011) MADELEINE J. H. Van OPPEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems

(2010) S. E. Kahng et al.   CORAL REEFS

Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs

(2010) P. Bongaerts et al.   CORAL REEFS

Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem

(2010) PAUL WASSMANN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Benthic assemblage composition on subtidal reefs along a latitudinal gradient in Western Australia

(2009) D.A. Smale et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs

(2009) Michael P. Lesser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Research frontiers in climate change: Effects of extreme meteorological events on ecosystems

(2008) Anke Jentsch et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies

(2008) Emily S. Darling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia

(2008) BENJAMIN J. GREENSTEIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave

(2008) J. GARRABOU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY