The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: Climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1789, 2014, Pages

  Vergés, Adriana ^a,b   Steinberg, Peter D ^a,b,c   Hay, Mark E ^d   Poore, Alistair G B ^a,b   Campbell, Alexandra H ^a,b   Ballesteros, Enric ^e   Heck Jr , Kenneth L ^f   Booth, David J ^b,g   Coleman, Melinda A ^h   Feary, David A ^b,g   Figueira, Will ^b   Langlois, Tim ⁱ   Marzinelli, Ezequiel M ^a,b   Mizerek, Toni ^b,j   Mumby, Peter J ^k   Nakamura, Yohei ^l   Roughan, Moninya ^a,b   van Sebille, Erik ^a   Gupta, Alex Sen ^a   Smale, Dan A ^i,m   Tomas, Fiona ^n,o   Wernberg, Thomas ⁱ   Wilson, Shaun K ^i,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h NSW Fisheries   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^j MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^l KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^o OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p Oregon State University ^*  (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem impacts; Functional diversity; Macroalgae; Range shift; Western boundary currents

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERGRAZING; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

JAPAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84903954158     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0846     Document Type: Article

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