Corrigendum: Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy

Hughes, Brent B.; Beas-Luna, Rodrigo; Barner, Allison K.; Brewitt, Kimberly; Brumbaugh, Daniel R.; Cerny-Chipman, Elizabeth B.; Close, Sarah L.; Coblentz, Kyle E.; Nesnera, Kristin L. de; Drobnitch, Sarah Tepler; Figurski, Jared D.; Focht, Becky; Friedman, Maya; Freiwald, Jan; Heady, Kristen K.; Heady, Walter N.; Hettinger, Annaliese; Johnson, Angela; Karr, Kendra; Mahoney, Brenna; Moritsch, Monica M.; Osterback, Ann‐Marie K.; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Robinson, Jonathan; Rohrer, Tully; Rose, Jeremy M.; Sabal, Megan C.; Segui, Leah M.; Shen, Chenchen; Sullivan, Jenna M.; Zuercher, Rachel; Raimondi, Peter T.; Menge, Bruce A.; Grorud-Colvert, Kirsten; Novák, Márk; Carr, Mark H.

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“…The current positive SST anomalies and apparent re-occurrence of a "warm blob" condition over the coming years (Oliver et al, 2019) make the need for region-wide long-term monitoring ever more urgent and critical. Disconcertingly, as this need become ever more obvious, large-scale, long-term ecosystem studies have generally declined in recent years (Hughes et al, 2017). As environmental variability and extremes are expected to increase, monitoring efforts need to be able to document the geographic patterns in response.…”

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“…Progress in understanding the responses of coastal marine communities and ecosystems to environmental change at relevant regional scales is impeded by a lack of coordinated monitoring. Longterm ecological studies provide key insights into such responses and may contribute disproportionally to our understanding of how ecosystems respond to environmental forcing and human use (Hughes et al, 2017;Reed, Washburn, et al, 2016), but they are often limited in geographic coverage. For example, our understanding of how kelp forest communities respond to climatic warming has generally been geographically limited, or limited by the number of taxa and functional groups (FG) examined, with very few exceptions (Byrnes et al, 2011;Dayton & Tegner, 1984;Dayton et al, 1992;Ebeling et al, 1985;Edwards, 2004;Schiel & Foster, 2015;exceptions: Edwards & Estes, 2006;Edwards, 2019).…”

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Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes

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Micheli

Woodson

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Global Change Biology

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The changing global climate is having profound effects on coastal marine ecosystems around the world. Structure, functioning, and resilience, however, can vary geographically, depending on species composition, local oceanographic forcing, and other pressures from human activities and use. Understanding ecological responses to environmental change and predicting changes in the structure and functioning of whole ecosystems require large-scale, long-term studies, yet most studies trade spatial extent for temporal duration. We address this shortfall by integrating multiple long-term kelp forest monitoring datasets to evaluate biogeographic patterns and rates of change of key functional groups (FG) along the west coast of North America. Analysis of data from 469 sites spanning Alaska, USA, to Baja California, Mexico, and 373 species (assigned to 18 FG) reveals regional variation in responses to both long-term (2006-2016) change and a recent marine heatwave (2014-2016) associated with two atmospheric and oceanographic anomalies, the "Blob" and extreme El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Canopy-forming kelps appeared most

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Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes

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Micheli

Woodson

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“…The analysis, prediction and possible mitigation of these effects require appropriate monitoring methods that can retrieve relevant ecological information on large spatial scales and over long time periods. Long-term research is a requisite to estimate past, current and future changes (Hughes et al 2017 ) and to develop general theories in ecology and evolutionary biology (Kuebbing et al 2018 ). Ecoacoustics, more specifically soundscape ecology which works at the landscape scale, offers valuable tools to retrieve ecological information with remote field-based sensors on large spatio-temporal scales (Pijanowski et al 2011 ; Sueur and Farina 2015 ).…”

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Soundscape dynamics of a cold protected forest: dominance of aircraft noise

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Context One mainstay of soundscape ecology is to understand acoustic pattern changes, in particular the relative balance between biophony (biotic sounds), geophony (abiotic sounds), and anthropophony (human-related sounds). However, little research has been pursued to automatically track these three components. Objectives Here, we introduce a 15-year program that aims at estimating soundscape dynamics in relation to possible land use and climate change. We address the relative prevalence patterns of these components during the first year of recording. Methods Using four recorders, we monitored the soundscape of a large coniferous Alpine forest at the France-Switzerland border. We trained an artificial neural network (ANN) with mel frequency cepstral coefficients to systematically detect the occurrence of silence and sounds coming from birds, mammals, insects (biophony), rain (geophony), wind (geophony), and aircraft (anthropophony). Results The ANN satisfyingly classified each sound type. The soundscape was dominated by anthropophony (75% of all files), followed by geophony (57%), biophony (43%), and silence (14%). The classification revealed expected phenologies for biophony and geophony and a co-occurrence of biophony and anthropophony. Silence was rare and mostly limited to night time. Conclusions It was possible to track the main soundscape components in order to empirically estimate their relative prevalence across seasons. This analysis reveals that anthropogenic noise is a major component of the soundscape of protected habitats, which can dramatically impact local animal behavior and ecology. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10980-021-01360-1.

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“…However, mesocosm studies generally do not include the full set of species and lack the spatial scales necessary to recreate the nonlinear dynamics of ecosystem-level change, and field studies have very little control over stressor gradients. Finally, ecological monitoring programs have proven to be a successful tool to enhance our understanding of climate change effects on natural ecosystems, contributing disproportionally to policy and management than any of the previous examples [9].…”

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Forecasting ocean acidification impacts on kelp forest ecosystems

Schlenger

Beas-Luna

Ambrose

2020

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AbstractOcean acidification is one the biggest threats to marine ecosystems worldwide, but its ecosystem wide responses are still poorly understood. This study integrates field and experimental data into a mass balance food web model of a temperate coastal ecosystem to determine the impacts of specific OA forcing mechanisms as well as how they interact with one another. Specifically, we forced a food web model of a kelp forest ecosystem near its southern distribution limit in the California large marine ecosystem to a 0.5 pH drop over the course of 50 years. This study utilizes a modeling approach to determine the impacts of specific OA forcing mechanisms as well as how they interact. Isolating OA impacts on growth (Production), mortality (Other Mortality), and predation interactions (Vulnerability) or combining all three mechanisms together leads to a variety of ecosystem responses, with some taxa increasing in abundance and other decreasing. Results suggest that carbonate mineralizing groups such as coralline algae, abalone, snails, and lobsters display the largest decreases in biomass while macroalgae, urchins, and some larger fish species display the largest increases. Low trophic level groups such as giant kelp and brown algae increase in biomass by 16% and 71%, respectively. Due to the diverse way in which OA stress manifests at both individual and population levels, ecosystem-level effects can vary and display nonlinear patterns. Combined OA forcing leads to initial increases in ecosystem and commercial biomasses followed by a decrease in commercial biomass below initial values over time, while ecosystem biomass remains high. Both biodiversity and average trophic level decrease over time. These projections indicate that the kelp forest community would maintain high productivity with a 0.5 drop in pH, but with a substantially different community structure characterized by lower biodiversity and relatively greater dominance by lower trophic level organisms.

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Corrigendum: Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy

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Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes

Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes

Soundscape dynamics of a cold protected forest: dominance of aircraft noise

Forecasting ocean acidification impacts on kelp forest ecosystems

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