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Editorial: Opening the black box of kelps: Response of early life stages to anthropogenic stressors
Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol.9
17/01/2023
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Abstract
Kelps form marine forests along world’s coastlines, providing valuable ecosystem goods and services, either directly as a source of food or medicinal products, or indirectly as biogenic habitats or carbon sink agents (Teagle et al., 2017; Wernberg et al., 2019). However, kelp forests are currently under threat due to anthropogenic climate change with latitudinal range shifts and large-scale declines at a global scale (Smale et al., 2019; Wernberg et al., 2019). Most studies on the impact of anthropogenic stressors on kelps have focused on the macroscopic sporophyte stage of the haploid-diploid life cycle (Schiel and Foster, 2006; Veenhof et al., 2022). However, the microscopic stages considered as the “black box” of kelps due to the complexity of studying them in situ, have been suggested to play a crucial role in the persistence of populations that experience sporophyte mortality after large-scale disturbances (McConnico and Foster, 2005; Barradas et al., 2011) as they can persist as “seed bank” analogues under adverse conditions (Hoffmann and Santelices, 1991; Veenhof et al., 2022). This Research Topic is a collection of 8 articles contributing to opening the “black box” of kelps by providing greater insight into how microscopic life stages of kelps are affected by anthropogenic climate change, helping to predict the persistence of these foundation species and therefore the fate of ecosystems and coastal communities. These studies highlight that the response of kelp early life stages to stressors can be strongly dependent on the population and thermal history.
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- Title
- Editorial: Opening the black box of kelps: Response of early life stages to anthropogenic stressors
- Creators
- Neusa Martins - University of AlgarveMelinda A. Coleman - New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (Coffs Harbour)Thomas Wernberg - University of Western AustraliaMichael Y. Roleda - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol.9
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Grant note
- NM was supported by the Portuguese national funds from FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under SFRH/BPD/122567/2016 (in transitional norm DL 57/2016/CP1361/CT0039). TW and MC were supported by Australian Research Council grants DP190100058 and DP200100201. MR was supported by the Philippines Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Balik Scientist Program (BSP) fellowship.
- Identifiers
- 991013079853502368
- Copyright
- © 2023 Martins, Coleman, Wernberg and Roleda. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Editorial