Season-specific impacts of climate change on canopy-forming seaweed communities.

ABSTRACT: Understory assemblages associated with canopy-forming species such as trees, kelps, and rockweeds should respond strongly to climate stressors due to strong canopy-understory interactions. Climate change can directly and indirectly modify these assemblages, particularly during more stressful seasons and climate scenarios. However, fully understanding the seasonal impacts of different climate conditions on canopy-reliant assemblages is difficult due to a continued emphasis on studying single-species responses to a single future climate scenario during a single season. To examine these emergent effects, we used mesocosm experiments to expose seaweed assemblages associated with the canopy-forming golden rockweed, Silvetia compressa, to elevated temperature and pCO₂ condition

SUBMITTER: Truong AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864935 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature