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The Northern Red Sea (Shushah Island) Coral health inferred from benthic forami...

The northeastern Red Sea (Saudi Arabia) is currently being transformed to become a global hub of economic activity and tourism. This transformation requires the development of pristine coastal areas into populated and dynamic settlements. At the same time, the northern Red Sea is considered a climate refuge for corals in changing climate conditions, and efforts to preserve and protect marine biodiversity are be...

Major expansion of marine forests in a warmer Arctic

Accelerating warming and associated loss of sea ice are expected to promote the expansion of coastal marine forests (macrophytes) along the massive Arctic coastlines. Yet, this region has received much less attention compared to other global oceans. The available future projections of Arctic macrophytes are still limited to few species and regions, and mostly focused at lower latitude ranges, thus precluding we...

Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae

Aim Marine forests of brown macroalgae create essential habitats for coastal species and support invaluable ecological services. Here, we provide the first global analysis of species richness and endemicity of both the kelp and fucoid biomes. Location Global. Time period Contemporary. Major taxa studied Marine forests of brown macroalgae, formed by kelp (here defined as orders Laminariales, Tilopteridales and D...

Global seaweed productivity

The magnitude and distribution of net primary production (NPP) in the coastal ocean remains poorly constrained, particularly for shallow marine vegetation. Here, using a compilation of in situ annual NPP measurements across >400 sites in 72 geographic ecoregions, we provide global predictions of the productivity of seaweed habitats, which form the largest vegetated coastal biome on the planet. We find that seaw...

Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests

Aim Macroalgal habitats are believed to be the most extensive and productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems. In stark contrast to the growing attention on their contribution to carbon export and sequestration, understanding of their global extent and production is limited and these have remained poorly assessed for decades. Here we report a first data-driven assessment of the global extent and production o...

Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification

Over the past decades, three major challenges to marine life have emerged as a consequence of anthropogenic emissions: ocean warming, acidification and oxygen loss. While most experimental research has targeted the first two stressors, the last remains comparatively neglected. Here, we implemented sequential hierarchical mixed-model meta-analyses (721 control–treatment comparisons) to compare the impacts of oxy...

Public Perceptions of Mangrove Forests Matter for Their Conservation

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T12:27:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-11-19; Univ Libre Bruxelles ULB, Dept Biol Organismes, Syst Ecol & Resource Management Res Unit, Brussels, Belgium; Vrije Univ Brussel VUB, Biol Dept, Lab Plant Biol & Nat Management, Ecol & Biodivers, Brussels, Belgium; Species Survival Commiss, Int Union Conservat Nat, Mangrove Specialist Grp, London, Englan...

Reply to: Caution over the use of ecological big data for conservation

Predicted regime shift in the seagrass ecosystem of the Gulf of Arguin driven b...

The Banc d′Arguin is a marine ecosystem of global conservation significance, the largest bird sanctuary of western Africa, supported by one of the most extensive seagrass beds in the world composed by three seagrass species, two temperate near their southern limit (Zostera noltei and Cymodocea nodosa) and one tropical at its northern limit (Halodule wrightii). Here we predict the fate of this seagrass ecosystem...

Corrigendum to “Golden carbon of Sargassum forests revealed as an opportunity f...