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From Individuals to Processes: Scaling up Climate-Dependent Larval Growth Rates and Behaviors to Population Distributions of Oysters in a Changing Ocean

ByCourtney Glancy

Jake Lawlor, Shawn Arellano 1Department of Biology and Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, Anacortes, WA, USA   In the field of climate change ecology, severe lethal impacts of climate-related stress are well documented, but the more subtle effects of global change on organisms and their influence on larger-scale processes remain poorly understood. In…

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Exploring environmental scenarios using a model of intermediate complexity for ecosystems for South African anchovy and sardine

ByCourtney Glancy

Kelly Ortega-cisneros Rhodes University   The southern Benguela system supports a productive fisheries sector that provides jobs and livelihoods for thousands of people living along the coast. The small pelagics fishery is the second most valuable fishery in economic terms in South Africa. It targets anchovy, adult sardine and some round herring, with juvenile sardine…

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Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change

ByCourtney Glancy

Chris Brown3, Richard  Matear5, Éva E.  Plagányi2, Anthony J.  Richardson2,4, Viv Tulloch1,2,3 1ARC Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 2CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Queensland BioSciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, Australia, 3Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia, 4Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics,…

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Hypoxia surpasses the impacts of ocean acidification and warming in marine biota

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Rui Rosa1, Ms Catarina Santos1, Dr Verónica Ferreira2, Dr Hans Pörtner3, Dr Carlos Duarte4, Dr. Lisa Levin5, Mr Eduardo Sampaio1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal, 2MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, Universidade de Coimbra, ,…

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Synthesizing the impacts of sediment disturbances on marine biodiversity

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr RAFAEL Magris1,2, Prof Natalie Ban2 1Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, Brasília, Brazil, 2School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Sediment disturbances are one of the most important threats affecting many marine species and causing profound ecological shifts. With an increase in suspended sediment concentration and deposition, alterations of the physical and…