Article, 2023
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species
Annual Review of Marine Science,
ISSN
1941-0611,
1941-1405,
Volume 16,
1,
Pages 247-282,
10.1146/annurev-marine-042023-093037
Contributors
Wernberg, Thomas
0000-0003-1185-9745
[1]
[2]
Thomsen, Mads Solgaard
0000-0003-4597-3343
[3]
[4]
Baum, Julia Kathleen
0000-0002-9827-1612
[5]
Bishop, Melanie Jane
0000-0001-8210-6500
[6]
Bruno, John Francis
0000-0003-2063-4185
[7]
Coleman, Melinda Ann
0000-0003-2623-633X
[8]
Filbee-Dexter, Karen
0000-0001-8413-6797
[1]
[2]
Gagnon, Karine
0000-0002-0971-7740
[2]
He, Qiang
0000-0001-6481-0924
[9]
Murdiyarso, Daniel
0000-0001-5497-6293
[10]
[11]
Rogers, Kerrylee
0000-0003-1350-4737
[12]
Silliman, Brian Reed
0000-0001-6360-650X
[13]
Smale, Dan A
0000-0003-4157-541X
[14]
Starko, Samuel
0000-0002-9604-9188
[1]
Vanderklift, Mathew A
[15]
Affiliations
- [1]
University of Western Australia
[NORA names:
Australia; Oceania; OECD];
- [2]
Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
[NORA names:
Norway; Europe, Non-EU; Nordic; OECD];
- [3]
Aarhus University
[NORA names:
AU Aarhus University; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD];
- [4]
University of Canterbury
[NORA names:
New Zealand; Oceania; OECD];
- [5]
University of Victoria
[NORA names:
Canada; America, North; OECD];
(... more)
- [6]
Macquarie University
[NORA names:
Australia; Oceania; OECD];
- [7]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[NORA names:
United States; America, North; OECD];
- [8]
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
[NORA names:
Australia; Oceania; OECD];
- [9]
Fudan University
[NORA names:
China; Asia, East];
- [10]
Center for International Forestry Research
[NORA names:
Indonesia; Asia, South];
- [11]
IPB University
[NORA names:
Indonesia; Asia, South];
- [12]
University of Wollongong
[NORA names:
Australia; Oceania; OECD];
- [13]
Duke University
[NORA names:
United States; America, North; OECD];
- [14]
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
[NORA names:
United Kingdom; Europe, Non-EU; OECD];
- [15]
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
[NORA names:
Australia; Oceania; OECD]
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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, 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.
Keywords
Anthropocene,
abundance,
acidification,
animals,
basis,
biodiversity,
bivalves,
change drivers,
changes,
climate,
climate change,
climate change drivers,
coastal development,
coastal ecosystems,
community,
context,
corals,
development,
distribution,
documented impact,
drivers,
ecological context,
ecosystem,
ecosystem services,
effect,
flow-on effects,
food,
foundation species,
genetic structure,
gradual warming,
habitat,
heatwaves,
human stressors,
impact,
impacts of climate change,
increased storminess,
indirect effects,
interaction,
interaction effects,
kelp,
level rise,
mangroves,
marine,
marine foundation species,
marsh plants,
ocean,
ocean acidification,
overfishing,
persistence,
pervasive driver,
physiology,
plants,
pollution,
protection,
resilience,
rise,
salt,
salt marsh plants,
sea,
sea level rise,
seagrass,
services,
species,
storminess,
stressors,
structure,
structured habitats,
threat,
variation,
warming,
world,
world's coastal ecosystems
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