High-latitude kelps and future oceans: A review of multiple stressor impacts in a changing world.

ABSTRACT: Kelp forests worldwide are threatened by both climate change and localized anthropogenic impacts. Species with cold-temperate, subpolar, or polar distributions are projected to experience range contractions over the coming decades, which may be exacerbated by climatic events such as marine heatwaves and increased freshwater and sediment input from rapidly contracting glaciers. The northeast Pacific has an extensive history of harvesting and cultivating kelps for subsistence, commercial, and other uses, and, therefore, declines in kelp abundance and distributional shifts will have significant impacts on this region. Gaps in our understanding of how cold-temperate kelp species respond to climate stressors have limited our ability to forecast the status of kelp forests in future oceans, which

SUBMITTER: Farrugia Drakard V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318616 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature