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

Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species

(2017) Jennifer A. Dijkstra et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of kelp species as biogenic habitat formers in coastal marine ecosystems

(2017) Harry Teagle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

The economic value of South African kelp forests and temperate reefs: Past, present and future

(2017) Laura K. Blamey et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Tropicalization strengthens consumer pressure on habitat-forming seaweeds

(2017) Salvador Zarco-Perello et al.   Scientific Reports

Status, trends and drivers of kelp forests in Europe: an expert assessment

(2016) R. M. Araújo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Nipped in the bud: mesograzer feeding preference contributes to kelp decline

(2016) John M. O'Brien et al.   ECOLOGY

Physiological responses of habitat-forming seaweeds to increasing temperatures

(2016) Thomas Wernberg et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

(2016) Scott Bennett et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Large-scale degradation of a kelp ecosystem in an ocean warming hotspot

(2016) K Filbee-Dexter et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

(2016) Kira A. Krumhansl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

(2016) T. Wernberg et al.   SCIENCE

Extreme warming challenges sentinel status of kelp forests as indicators of climate change

(2016) Daniel Reed et al.   Nature Communications

Large-scale degradation of a kelp ecosystem in an ocean warming hotspot

(2016) K Filbee-Dexter et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Tropical herbivores provide resilience to a climate-mediated phase shift on temperate reefs

(2015) Scott Bennett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Building Resilience Against Climate-Driven Shifts in a Temperate Reef System: Staying Away from Context-Dependent Ecological Thresholds

(2015) Martin Pierre Marzloff et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Kelp in hot water: II. Effects of warming seawater temperature on kelp quality as a food source and settlement substrate

(2015) EJ Simonson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Positive feedback between large-scale disturbance and density-dependent grazing decreases resilience of a kelp bed ecosystem

(2015) JM O’Brien et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Herbivory drives kelp recruits into ‘hiding’ in a warm ocean climate

(2015) JN Franco et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Escaping herbivory: ocean warming as a refuge for primary producers where consumer metabolism and consumption cannot pursue

(2015) Nicole L. Mertens et al.   OECOLOGIA

Central and rear-edge populations can be equally vulnerable to warming

(2015) Scott Bennett et al.   Nature Communications

Kelp in hot water: II. Effects of warming seawater temperature on kelp quality as a food source and settlement substrate

(2015) EJ Simonson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Positive feedback between large-scale disturbance and density-dependent grazing decreases resilience of a kelp bed ecosystem

(2015) JM O’Brien et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Herbivory drives kelp recruits into ‘hiding’ in a warm ocean climate

(2015) JN Franco et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Identifying the interacting roles of stressors in driving the global loss of canopy-forming to mat-forming algae in marine ecosystems

(2014) Elisabeth M. A. Strain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in the global value of ecosystem services

(2014) Robert Costanza et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Tropical rabbitfish and the deforestation of a warming temperate sea

(2014) Adriana Vergés et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards Restoration of Missing Underwater Forests

(2014) Alexandra H. Campbell et al.   PLoS One

Modeling effects of climate change and phase shifts on detrital production of a kelp bed

(2013) Kira A. Krumhansl et al.   ECOLOGY

Economic valuation of kelp forests in northern Chile: values of goods and services of the ecosystem

(2013) Julio A. Vásquez et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Sea urchin barrens as alternative stable states of collapsed kelp ecosystems

(2013) K Filbee-Dexter et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

What are algal turfs? Towards a better description of turfs

(2013) SD Connell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Climate driven changes in subtidal kelp forest communities in NW Spain

(2013) Sofie E. Voerman et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Decline in Kelp in West Europe and Climate

(2013) Virginie Raybaud et al.   PLoS One

South African kelp moving eastwards: the discovery ofEcklonia maxima(Osbeck) Papenfuss at De Hoop Nature Reserve on the south coast of South Africa

(2012) JJ Bolton et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Ecosystem Flips, Locks, and Feedbacks: the Lasting Effects of Fisheries on Maine's Kelp Forest Ecosystem

(2012) Robert S Steneck et al.   BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE

Roles of transport and mixing processes in kelp forest ecology

(2012) B. Gaylord et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae along the south and west coast of Norway

(2012) Frithjof E. Moy et al.   Marine Biology Research

Production and fate of kelp detritus

(2012) KA Krumhansl et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Hurricane-mediated defoliation of kelp beds and pulsed delivery of kelp detritus to offshore sedimentary habitats

(2012) K Filbee-Dexter et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Patterns of landscape and assemblage structure along a latitudinal gradient in ocean climate

(2012) F Tuya et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2012) Thomas Wernberg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Warming off southwestern Japan linked to distributional shifts of subtidal canopy-forming seaweeds

(2012) Kouki Tanaka et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Extirpation of Macroalgae (Sargassum spp.) on the Subtropical East Australian Coast

(2011) JULIE A. PHILLIPS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Stability, resilience, and phase shifts in rocky subtidal communities along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

(2011) Jane Watson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Suppression of herbivory by macroalgal density: a critical feedback on coral reefs?

(2011) Andrew S. Hoey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The retreat of large brown seaweeds on the north coast of Spain: the case ofSaccorhiza polyschides

(2011) C. Fernández   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Kelp distribution in the northwest Atlantic Ocean under a changing climate

(2011) Anissa Merzouk et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming

(2011) Thomas Wernberg et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Grazing damage and encrustation by an invasive bryozoan reduce the ability of kelps to withstand breakage by waves

(2011) Kira A. Krumhansl et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations and human evolution on the southern coastal plain of South Africa

(2011) John S. Compton   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Decreasing resilience of kelp beds along a latitudinal temperature gradient: potential implications for a warmer future

(2010) Thomas Wernberg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Habitat Cascades: The Conceptual Context and Global Relevance of Facilitation Cascades via Habitat Formation and Modification

(2010) Mads S. Thomsen et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Recovering subtidal forests in human-dominated landscapes

(2010) Daniel Gorman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Implications of warming temperatures for population outbreaks of a nonindigenous species (Membranipora membranacea, Bryozoa) in rocky subtidal ecosystems

(2010) Megan I. Saunders et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The direct effects of increasing CO2 and temperature on non-calcifying organisms: increasing the potential for phase shifts in kelp forests

(2010) S. D. Connell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Land-to-sea connectivity: linking human-derived terrestrial subsidies to subtidal habitat change on open rocky coasts

(2009) Daniel Gorman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Macrophytes as habitat for fauna

(2009) H Christie et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems

(2009) M. Waycott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ABSENCE OF A LARGE BROWN MACROALGA ON URBANIZED ROCKY REEFS AROUND SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND EVIDENCE FOR HISTORICAL DECLINE1

(2008) Melinda A. Coleman et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Recovering a lost baseline: missing kelp forests from a metropolitan coast

(2008) SD Connell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES