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Listed below are publications on marine heatwaves by the working group authors.
Forthcoming
Holbrook NJ, DC Claar, AJ Hobday, KL McInnes, E. C. J. Oliver, A Sen Gupta, MJ Widlansky and X Zhang (2020): ENSO driven ocean extremes and their ecosystem impacts. Chapter 18 (pp 409-428) In: ENSO in a Changing Climate (Eds. MJ McPhaden, A Santoso and W Cai), American Geophysical Union (AGU) [ISBN: 978-1-119-54812-6].
Oliver, E. C. J., J. A. Benthuysen, S. Darmaraki, M. G. Donat, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, R. W. Schlegel and A. Sen Gupta (in press). Marine Heatwaves. Annual Review of Marine Science.
Wernberg T (2020) Marine heatwave drives collapse of kelp forests in Western Australia. In: Canadell JG, Jackson RB (eds) Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change. Ecological Studies, Springer-Nature, accepted 1 Sept 2019
2020
Benthuysen, J. A., E. C. J. Oliver, K. Chen and T. Wernberg (2020). Editorial: Advances in Understanding Marine Heatwaves and Their Impacts. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00147.
Coleman MA, Minne AJP, Vranken S, Wernberg T (2020) Genetic tropicalisation following a marine heatwave. Scientific Reports, 10: 12726
Filbee-Dexter K, Wernberg T, Grace SP, Thormar J, Fredriksen S, Narvaez CN, Feehan CJ, Norderhaug KM (2020) Marine heatwaves and the collapse of marginal North Atlantic kelp forests. Scientific Reports, 10: 13388
Gurgel CFD, Camacho O, Minne AJP, Wernberg T & Coleman MA (2020) Marine heatwave drives cryptic loss of genetic diversity in underwater forests. Current Biology, 30 (7):1199-1206.e2
Holbrook, N. J., A. S. Gupta, E. C. J. Oliver, A. J. Hobday, J. A. Benthuysen, H. A. Scannell, D. A. Smale and T. Wernberg (2020). Keeping Pace with Marine Heatwaves. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: https://doi.org/10.103/s43017-43020-40068-43014.
Li, Z., N. J. Holbrook, X. Zhang, E. C. J. Oliver and E. A. Cougnon (2020), Remote forcing of Tasman Sea marine heatwaves, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0641.1.
2019
Holbrook NJ, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta, JA Benthuysen, M Feng, ECJ Oliver, LV Alexander, MT Burrows, MG Donat, AJ Hobday, PJ Moore, SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, DA Smale, SC Straub and T Wernberg, 2019: A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers. Nature Communications, 10, Article number 2624, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10206-z.
Pilo G S-, NJ Holbrook, A Kiss and AMcC Hogg, 2019: Sensitivity of marine heatwave metrics to ocean model resolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, doi:10.1029/2019GL084928.
Babcock, R. C., R. H. Bustamante, E. A. Fulton, D. J. Fulton, M. D. E. Haywood, A. J. Hobday, R. Kenyon, R. J. Matear, E. Plaganyi, A. J. Richardson and M. Vanderklift (2019). Severe and extensive climate change impacts are happening now: Recent dieback of marine habitat forming communities along 40% of the Australian coast. Frontiers in Marine Science: doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00411.
Mamo LT, Benkendorff K, Butcherine P, Coleman MA, Ewere EE, Miranda RJ, Wernberg T, Kelaher BP (2019) Resilience of a harvested gastropod, Turbo militaris, to marine heatwaves. Marine Environmental Research, 151: 104769.
Oliver, E. C. J., Mean warming not variability drives marine heatwave trends, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-019-04707-2.
Oliver, E. C. J., M. Burrows, M. Donat, A. Sen Gupta, L. Alexander, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, J. Benthuysen, A. Hobday, N. Holbrook, P. Moore, M. Thomsen, T. Wernberg and D. Smale (2019), Projected marine heatwaves in the 21st century and the potential for ecological impact, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, pp. 734, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00734.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, A. J. Hobday and A. J. Smit (2019). Detecting marine heatwaves with sub-optimal data. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00737.
Smale, D., T. Wernberg, E. C. J. Oliver, M. Thomsen, B. Harvey, S. Straub, M. Burrows, L. Alexander, J. Benthuysen, M. Donat, M. Feng, A. Hobday, N. Holbrook, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, H. Scannell, A. Sen Gupta, B. Payne and P. Moore (2019), Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0412-1.
Straub, S. C., T. Wernberg, M. S. Thomsen, P. J. Moore, M. T. Burrows, B. P. Harvey and D. A. Smale (2019). Resistance, Extinction, and Everything in Between – The Diverse Responses of Seaweeds to Marine Heatwaves. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 763: doi: 710.3389/fmars.2019.00763.
Thomsen, M. S., L. Mondardini, T. Alestra, S. Gerrity, L. Tait, P. M. South, S. A. Lilley and D. R. Schiel (2019). Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00084.
2018
Ruthrof K, Breshears D, Fontaine J, Froend R, Matusick G, Kala J, Miller B, Mitchell P, Wilson S, van Keulen M, Enright N, Law D, Wernberg T, Hardy G (2018) Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses. Scientific Reports, 8: 13094. [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31236-5]
Harris R, Beaumont L, Vance T, Tozer C, Remenyi T, Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, Mitchell P, Nicotra A, McGregor S, Andrew N, Letnic M, Kearney M, Wernberg T, Hutley L, Chambers L, Fletcher M-S, Keatley M, Woodward C, Williamson G, Duke N, Bowman D (2018) Biological responses to the ‘press’ and ‘pulse’ of climate trends and extreme events. Nature Climate Change, 8: 579-587. [doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0187-9]
Hobday, A. J., E. C. J. Oliver, A. S. Gupta, J. A. Benthuysen, M. T. Burrows, M. G. Donat, N. J. Holbrook, P. J. Moore, M. S. Thomsen, T. Wernberg and D. A. Smale (2018). Categorizing and Naming Marine Heatwaves. Oceanography 31(2): https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.5205.
Oliver, E. C. J., M. G. Donat, M. T. Burrows, P. J. Moore, D. A. Smale, L. V. Alexander, J. A. Benthuysen, M. Feng, A. Sen Gupta, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, H. A. Scannell, S. C. Straub and T. Wernberg (2018). Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century. Nature Communications, 9 (1324) doi:1310.1038/s41467-41018-03732-41469.
Benthuysen, J. A, E. C. J. Oliver, M. Feng and A. Marshall (2018), Extreme marine warming across tropical Australia during austral summer 2015-16, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123 (2), pp. 1301-1326, doi: 10.1002/2017JC013326.
Oliver, E. C. J., V. Lago, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, S. D. Ling and C. N. Mundy (2018), Marine heatwaves off eastern Tasmania: Trends, interannual variability, and predictability, Progress in Oceanography, 161, pp. 116-130, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean/2018.02.007.
Wernberg, T., M. A. Coleman, S. Bennett, M. S. Thomsen, F. Tuya and B. P. Kelaher (2018). Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress. Scientific Reports 8: 1851. DOI:1810.1038/s41598-41018-20009-41599.
2017
Tuckett CA, de Bettignies T, Fromont J, Wernberg T (2017) Expansion of corals on temperate reefs: direct and indirect effects of marine heatwaves. Coral Reefs, 36: 947–956.[doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1586-5]
Zarco-Perello S, Wernberg T, Langlois T, Vanderklift MA (2017) Tropicalization strengthens consumer pressure on habitat-forming seaweeds. Scientific Reports, 7: 820. [doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00991-2]
Smale DA, Wernberg T, Vanderklift MA (2017) Regional-scale variability in the response of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages to a marine heatwave. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 568: 17-30. [doi: 10.3354/meps12080]
Oliver, E. C. J., S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, N. J. Holbrook and N. L. Bindoff (2017), Anthropogenic and natural influences on record 2016 marine heatwaves [in “Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective”]. Bulletin of the Amerercan Meteorological Society, 98(12), S44–S48, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0093.1.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, A. Kruger and A. J. Smit (2017), Predominant atmospheric and oceanic patterns during coastal marine heatwaves, Frontiers in Marine Science, 4:323, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00323.
Oliver, E. C. J., J. A. Benthuysen, N. L. Bindoff, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, C. N. Mundy and S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick (2017), The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave, Nature Communications, 8, 16101, doi: 10.1038/ncomms16101.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, T. Wernberg and A. J. Smit (2017), Nearshore and offshore co-occurrence of marine heatwaves and cold-spells, Progress in Oceanography, 151, pp. 189-205, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2017.01.004.
Zhang, N., M. Feng, H. Hendon, A. J. Hobday and J. Zinke (2017). Opposite polarity of ENSO drives distinct patterns of coral bleaching potentials in the southeast Indian Ocean. Scientific Reports 7(2443): DOI:10.1038/s41598-41017-02688-y.
Joint, I. & Smale, D. A. (2017) Marine heatwaves and optimal temperatures for microbial assemblage activity. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 (2): fiw243
2016
Hobday, A. J., L. V. Alexander, S. E. Perkins, D. A. Smale, S. C. Straub, E. C. J. Oliver, J. Benthuysen, M. T. Burrows, M. G. Donat, M. Feng, N. J. Holbrook, P. J. Moore, H. A. Scannell, A. S. Gupta and T. Wernberg (2016). A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves. Progress in Oceanography: doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2015.1012.1014. Outcome of Workshop #1.
Wernberg, T., S. Bennett, R. C. Babcock, T. de Bettignies, K. Cure, M. Depczynski, F. Dufois, J. Fromont, C. J. Fulton, R. K. Hovey, E. S. Harvey, T. H. Holmes, G. A. Kendrick, B. Radford, J. Santana-Garcon, B. J. Saunders, D. A. Smale, M. S. Thomsen, C. A. Tuckett, F. Tuya, M. A. Vanderklift, and S. Wilson. 2016. Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. Science 353:169-172.
2015
Bennett S, Wernberg T, Bijo AJ, de Bettignies T, Campbell AH (2015) Central and rear edge populations can be equally vulnerable to warming. Nature Communications, 6:10280. [doi: 10.1038/ncomms10280]
2014
Benthuysen, J., Feng, M., & Zhong, L. (2014). Spatial patterns of warming off Western Australia during the 2011 Ningaloo Niño: quantifying impacts of remote and local forcing. Continental Shelf Research, 91, 232-246. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2014.09.014 video
2013
Smale D.A. & Wernberg T. (2013) Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280: 20122829, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2829
Wernberg, T., D. A. Smale, F. Tuya, M. S. Thomsen, T. J. Langlois, T. de Bettignies, S. Bennett, and C. S. Rousseaux. 2013. An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Nature Climate Change 3:78–82.
2012
Smale, D., and T. Wernberg. 2012. Ecological observations associated with an anomalous warming event at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Coral Reefs 31:441-441.
Holbrook NJ, DC Claar, AJ Hobday, KL McInnes, E. C. J. Oliver, A Sen Gupta, MJ Widlansky and X Zhang (2020): ENSO driven ocean extremes and their ecosystem impacts. Chapter 18 (pp 409-428) In: ENSO in a Changing Climate (Eds. MJ McPhaden, A Santoso and W Cai), American Geophysical Union (AGU) [ISBN: 978-1-119-54812-6].
Oliver, E. C. J., J. A. Benthuysen, S. Darmaraki, M. G. Donat, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, R. W. Schlegel and A. Sen Gupta (in press). Marine Heatwaves. Annual Review of Marine Science.
Wernberg T (2020) Marine heatwave drives collapse of kelp forests in Western Australia. In: Canadell JG, Jackson RB (eds) Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change. Ecological Studies, Springer-Nature, accepted 1 Sept 2019
2020
Benthuysen, J. A., E. C. J. Oliver, K. Chen and T. Wernberg (2020). Editorial: Advances in Understanding Marine Heatwaves and Their Impacts. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00147.
- An introduction to 23 papers published in a special issue of Frontiers in Marine Science. Research Topic: Advances in Understanding Marine Heatwaves and Their Impacts. Access all papers here
Coleman MA, Minne AJP, Vranken S, Wernberg T (2020) Genetic tropicalisation following a marine heatwave. Scientific Reports, 10: 12726
Filbee-Dexter K, Wernberg T, Grace SP, Thormar J, Fredriksen S, Narvaez CN, Feehan CJ, Norderhaug KM (2020) Marine heatwaves and the collapse of marginal North Atlantic kelp forests. Scientific Reports, 10: 13388
Gurgel CFD, Camacho O, Minne AJP, Wernberg T & Coleman MA (2020) Marine heatwave drives cryptic loss of genetic diversity in underwater forests. Current Biology, 30 (7):1199-1206.e2
Holbrook, N. J., A. S. Gupta, E. C. J. Oliver, A. J. Hobday, J. A. Benthuysen, H. A. Scannell, D. A. Smale and T. Wernberg (2020). Keeping Pace with Marine Heatwaves. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: https://doi.org/10.103/s43017-43020-40068-43014.
Li, Z., N. J. Holbrook, X. Zhang, E. C. J. Oliver and E. A. Cougnon (2020), Remote forcing of Tasman Sea marine heatwaves, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0641.1.
2019
Holbrook NJ, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta, JA Benthuysen, M Feng, ECJ Oliver, LV Alexander, MT Burrows, MG Donat, AJ Hobday, PJ Moore, SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, DA Smale, SC Straub and T Wernberg, 2019: A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers. Nature Communications, 10, Article number 2624, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10206-z.
Pilo G S-, NJ Holbrook, A Kiss and AMcC Hogg, 2019: Sensitivity of marine heatwave metrics to ocean model resolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, doi:10.1029/2019GL084928.
Babcock, R. C., R. H. Bustamante, E. A. Fulton, D. J. Fulton, M. D. E. Haywood, A. J. Hobday, R. Kenyon, R. J. Matear, E. Plaganyi, A. J. Richardson and M. Vanderklift (2019). Severe and extensive climate change impacts are happening now: Recent dieback of marine habitat forming communities along 40% of the Australian coast. Frontiers in Marine Science: doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00411.
Mamo LT, Benkendorff K, Butcherine P, Coleman MA, Ewere EE, Miranda RJ, Wernberg T, Kelaher BP (2019) Resilience of a harvested gastropod, Turbo militaris, to marine heatwaves. Marine Environmental Research, 151: 104769.
Oliver, E. C. J., Mean warming not variability drives marine heatwave trends, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-019-04707-2.
Oliver, E. C. J., M. Burrows, M. Donat, A. Sen Gupta, L. Alexander, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, J. Benthuysen, A. Hobday, N. Holbrook, P. Moore, M. Thomsen, T. Wernberg and D. Smale (2019), Projected marine heatwaves in the 21st century and the potential for ecological impact, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, pp. 734, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00734.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, A. J. Hobday and A. J. Smit (2019). Detecting marine heatwaves with sub-optimal data. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00737.
Smale, D., T. Wernberg, E. C. J. Oliver, M. Thomsen, B. Harvey, S. Straub, M. Burrows, L. Alexander, J. Benthuysen, M. Donat, M. Feng, A. Hobday, N. Holbrook, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, H. Scannell, A. Sen Gupta, B. Payne and P. Moore (2019), Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0412-1.
Straub, S. C., T. Wernberg, M. S. Thomsen, P. J. Moore, M. T. Burrows, B. P. Harvey and D. A. Smale (2019). Resistance, Extinction, and Everything in Between – The Diverse Responses of Seaweeds to Marine Heatwaves. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 763: doi: 710.3389/fmars.2019.00763.
Thomsen, M. S., L. Mondardini, T. Alestra, S. Gerrity, L. Tait, P. M. South, S. A. Lilley and D. R. Schiel (2019). Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave. Frontiers in Marine Science: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00084.
2018
Ruthrof K, Breshears D, Fontaine J, Froend R, Matusick G, Kala J, Miller B, Mitchell P, Wilson S, van Keulen M, Enright N, Law D, Wernberg T, Hardy G (2018) Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses. Scientific Reports, 8: 13094. [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31236-5]
Harris R, Beaumont L, Vance T, Tozer C, Remenyi T, Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, Mitchell P, Nicotra A, McGregor S, Andrew N, Letnic M, Kearney M, Wernberg T, Hutley L, Chambers L, Fletcher M-S, Keatley M, Woodward C, Williamson G, Duke N, Bowman D (2018) Biological responses to the ‘press’ and ‘pulse’ of climate trends and extreme events. Nature Climate Change, 8: 579-587. [doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0187-9]
Hobday, A. J., E. C. J. Oliver, A. S. Gupta, J. A. Benthuysen, M. T. Burrows, M. G. Donat, N. J. Holbrook, P. J. Moore, M. S. Thomsen, T. Wernberg and D. A. Smale (2018). Categorizing and Naming Marine Heatwaves. Oceanography 31(2): https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.5205.
Oliver, E. C. J., M. G. Donat, M. T. Burrows, P. J. Moore, D. A. Smale, L. V. Alexander, J. A. Benthuysen, M. Feng, A. Sen Gupta, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, H. A. Scannell, S. C. Straub and T. Wernberg (2018). Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century. Nature Communications, 9 (1324) doi:1310.1038/s41467-41018-03732-41469.
Benthuysen, J. A, E. C. J. Oliver, M. Feng and A. Marshall (2018), Extreme marine warming across tropical Australia during austral summer 2015-16, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123 (2), pp. 1301-1326, doi: 10.1002/2017JC013326.
Oliver, E. C. J., V. Lago, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, S. D. Ling and C. N. Mundy (2018), Marine heatwaves off eastern Tasmania: Trends, interannual variability, and predictability, Progress in Oceanography, 161, pp. 116-130, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean/2018.02.007.
Wernberg, T., M. A. Coleman, S. Bennett, M. S. Thomsen, F. Tuya and B. P. Kelaher (2018). Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress. Scientific Reports 8: 1851. DOI:1810.1038/s41598-41018-20009-41599.
2017
Tuckett CA, de Bettignies T, Fromont J, Wernberg T (2017) Expansion of corals on temperate reefs: direct and indirect effects of marine heatwaves. Coral Reefs, 36: 947–956.[doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1586-5]
Zarco-Perello S, Wernberg T, Langlois T, Vanderklift MA (2017) Tropicalization strengthens consumer pressure on habitat-forming seaweeds. Scientific Reports, 7: 820. [doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00991-2]
Smale DA, Wernberg T, Vanderklift MA (2017) Regional-scale variability in the response of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages to a marine heatwave. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 568: 17-30. [doi: 10.3354/meps12080]
Oliver, E. C. J., S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, N. J. Holbrook and N. L. Bindoff (2017), Anthropogenic and natural influences on record 2016 marine heatwaves [in “Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective”]. Bulletin of the Amerercan Meteorological Society, 98(12), S44–S48, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0093.1.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, A. Kruger and A. J. Smit (2017), Predominant atmospheric and oceanic patterns during coastal marine heatwaves, Frontiers in Marine Science, 4:323, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00323.
Oliver, E. C. J., J. A. Benthuysen, N. L. Bindoff, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, C. N. Mundy and S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick (2017), The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave, Nature Communications, 8, 16101, doi: 10.1038/ncomms16101.
Schlegel, R. W., E. C. J. Oliver, T. Wernberg and A. J. Smit (2017), Nearshore and offshore co-occurrence of marine heatwaves and cold-spells, Progress in Oceanography, 151, pp. 189-205, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2017.01.004.
Zhang, N., M. Feng, H. Hendon, A. J. Hobday and J. Zinke (2017). Opposite polarity of ENSO drives distinct patterns of coral bleaching potentials in the southeast Indian Ocean. Scientific Reports 7(2443): DOI:10.1038/s41598-41017-02688-y.
Joint, I. & Smale, D. A. (2017) Marine heatwaves and optimal temperatures for microbial assemblage activity. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 (2): fiw243
2016
Hobday, A. J., L. V. Alexander, S. E. Perkins, D. A. Smale, S. C. Straub, E. C. J. Oliver, J. Benthuysen, M. T. Burrows, M. G. Donat, M. Feng, N. J. Holbrook, P. J. Moore, H. A. Scannell, A. S. Gupta and T. Wernberg (2016). A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves. Progress in Oceanography: doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2015.1012.1014. Outcome of Workshop #1.
Wernberg, T., S. Bennett, R. C. Babcock, T. de Bettignies, K. Cure, M. Depczynski, F. Dufois, J. Fromont, C. J. Fulton, R. K. Hovey, E. S. Harvey, T. H. Holmes, G. A. Kendrick, B. Radford, J. Santana-Garcon, B. J. Saunders, D. A. Smale, M. S. Thomsen, C. A. Tuckett, F. Tuya, M. A. Vanderklift, and S. Wilson. 2016. Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. Science 353:169-172.
2015
Bennett S, Wernberg T, Bijo AJ, de Bettignies T, Campbell AH (2015) Central and rear edge populations can be equally vulnerable to warming. Nature Communications, 6:10280. [doi: 10.1038/ncomms10280]
2014
Benthuysen, J., Feng, M., & Zhong, L. (2014). Spatial patterns of warming off Western Australia during the 2011 Ningaloo Niño: quantifying impacts of remote and local forcing. Continental Shelf Research, 91, 232-246. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2014.09.014 video
2013
Smale D.A. & Wernberg T. (2013) Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280: 20122829, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2829
Wernberg, T., D. A. Smale, F. Tuya, M. S. Thomsen, T. J. Langlois, T. de Bettignies, S. Bennett, and C. S. Rousseaux. 2013. An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Nature Climate Change 3:78–82.
2012
Smale, D., and T. Wernberg. 2012. Ecological observations associated with an anomalous warming event at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Coral Reefs 31:441-441.
POPULAR ARTICLES
Smale DA, Wernberg T (2019). Suffering in the heat: The rise in marine heatwaves is harming ocean species. The Conversation 5/3/19.
Hobday, A. J. (2018). Why We Need to Start Categorizing Marine Heatwaves Like Hurricanes. Oceans Deeply. Online July 17, 2018. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2018/07/17/why-we-need-to-start-categorizing-marine-heat-waves-like-hurricanes
Oliver, E.C.J., A. Hobday, D. Smale, N. J. Holbrook and T. Wernberg (30 May 2018), Marine heatwaves are getting hotter, lasting longer and doing more damage. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-are-getting-hotter-lasting-longer-and-doing-more-damage-95637
Bennett, S., Santana-Garcon, J., Wernberg, T. (July 8, 2016), A marine heatwave has wiped out a swathe of WA’s undersea kelp forest. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/a-marine-heatwave-has-wiped-out-a-swathe-of-was-undersea-kelp-forest-62042
Hobday, A. J., E. C. J. Oliver, J. McDonald, M. Grose (April 19, 2016), Was Tasmania’s summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future?, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/was-tasmanias-summer-of-fires-and-floods-a-glimpse-of-its-climate-future-58055
Wernberg, T. & Smale, D. A. (February 5, 2015), Marine heatwaves threaten the future of underwater forests. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-threaten-the-future-of-underwater-forests-37154
Hobday, A. J. (2018). Why We Need to Start Categorizing Marine Heatwaves Like Hurricanes. Oceans Deeply. Online July 17, 2018. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2018/07/17/why-we-need-to-start-categorizing-marine-heat-waves-like-hurricanes
Oliver, E.C.J., A. Hobday, D. Smale, N. J. Holbrook and T. Wernberg (30 May 2018), Marine heatwaves are getting hotter, lasting longer and doing more damage. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-are-getting-hotter-lasting-longer-and-doing-more-damage-95637
Bennett, S., Santana-Garcon, J., Wernberg, T. (July 8, 2016), A marine heatwave has wiped out a swathe of WA’s undersea kelp forest. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/a-marine-heatwave-has-wiped-out-a-swathe-of-was-undersea-kelp-forest-62042
Hobday, A. J., E. C. J. Oliver, J. McDonald, M. Grose (April 19, 2016), Was Tasmania’s summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future?, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/was-tasmanias-summer-of-fires-and-floods-a-glimpse-of-its-climate-future-58055
Wernberg, T. & Smale, D. A. (February 5, 2015), Marine heatwaves threaten the future of underwater forests. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-threaten-the-future-of-underwater-forests-37154
DAta sets
Oliver, E. C. J., V. Lago, N. J. Holbrook, S. D. Ling, C. N. Mundy, A. J. Hobday (2017), Eastern Tasmania Marine Heatwave Atlas, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. doi: 10.4226/77/587e97d9b2bf9. http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=20188863-0af6-4032-98f8-def671cdaa58.