Too Hot to Handle: Unprecedented Seagrass Death Driven by Marine Heatwave in a World Heritage Area

• Main Authors: Strydom, Simone, Murray, Kathy, Wilson, Shaun, Huntley, Bart, Rule, Michael, Heithaus, Michael, Bessey, Cindy, Kendrick, Gary A., Burkholder, Derek, Holmes, Thomas, Fraser, Matthew W., Zdunic, Katherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2020
• Subjects: Habitat map; Marine heatwave; Seagrass; Seascape; Seawater temperature; Shark Bay; World Heritage Area; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Austral; Faure; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1071

The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs), has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date metrics of thermal stress within marine systems have focussed on coral communities, and less is known about measuring stress relevant to other primar...