Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

Thomas Wernberg; Scott Bennett; Russell C. Babcock; Thibaut De Bettignies; Katherine Cure; Martial Depczynski; Francois Dufois; Jane Fromont; Christopher J. Fulton; Renae K. Hovey; Euan S. Harvey; Thomas H. Holmes; Gary A. Kendrick; Ben Radford; Julia Santana-Garcon; Benjamin J. Saunders; Dan A. Smale; Mads S. Thomsen; Chenae A. Tuckett; Fernando Tuya; Mathew A. Vanderklift; Shaun Wilson

doi:10.1126/science.aad8745

Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

Thomas Wernberg^*, Scott Bennett, Russell C. Babcock, Thibaut De Bettignies, Katherine Cure, Martial Depczynski, Francois Dufois, Jane Fromont, Christopher J. Fulton, Renae K. Hovey, Euan S. Harvey, Thomas H. Holmes, Gary A. Kendrick, Ben Radford, Julia Santana-Garcon, Benjamin J. Saunders, Dan A. Smale, Mads S. Thomsen, Chenae A. Tuckett, Fernando TuyaMathew A. Vanderklift, Shaun Wilson

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Abstract

Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a rapid climate-driven regime shift of Australian temperate reef communities, which lost their defining kelp forests and became dominated by persistent seaweed turfs. After decades of ocean warming, extreme marine heat waves forced a 100-kilometer range contraction of extensive kelp forests and saw temperate species replaced by seaweeds, invertebrates, corals, and fishes characteristic of subtropical and tropical waters.This community-wide tropicalization fundamentally altered key ecological processes, suppressing the recovery of kelp forests.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-172
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	353
Issue number	6295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad8745
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2016

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Wernberg, T., Bennett, S., Babcock, R. C., De Bettignies, T., Cure, K., Depczynski, M., Dufois, F., Fromont, J., Fulton, C. J., Hovey, R. K., Harvey, E. S., Holmes, T. H., Kendrick, G. A., Radford, B., Santana-Garcon, J., Saunders, B. J., Smale, D. A., Thomsen, M. S., Tuckett, C. A., ... Wilson, S. (2016). Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. Science, 353(6295), 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad8745

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