Thomas Wernberg

Oct 30, 2024 | cell.com | Aaron M. Eger |Thomas Wernberg |Oceans Canada |Jan Verbeek

Main text Kelp forests are one of the world’s largest marine ecosystems, of immense ecological, cultural, and economic importance, yet they are declining worldwide and are often the forgotten forests of our planet.1 While the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework calls for protection of 30% of the world’s ecosystems and restoration of 30% of degraded systems by 2030,2 kelp forest ecosystems have largely been neglected in international...

May 22, 2024 | nature.com | Karen Filbee-Dexter |Thomas Wernberg |Carlos Duarte |Jorge Assis |Trine Bekkby |Michael T. Burrows | +11 more

AbstractThe coastal ocean represents an important global carbon sink and is a focus for interventions to mitigate climate change and meet the Paris Agreement targets while supporting biodiversity and other ecosystem functions. However, the fate of the flux of carbon exported from seaweed forests—the world’s largest coastal vegetated ecosystem—is a key unknown in marine carbon budgets.

May 11, 2024 | dawn.com | Zhi Li |Thomas Wernberg |Neil Holbrook |Matthew England

Over the last year, our oceans have been hotter than any time ever recorded. Our instrumental record covers the last 150 years. But based on proxy observations, we can say our oceans are now hotter than well before the rise of human civilisation, very likely for at least 100,000 years. This isn’t wholly unexpected. Ocean temperatures have been steadily rising due to human-caused global warming, which in turn means record hottest years have become increasingly common.

Sep 8, 2023 | annualreviews.org | Thomas Wernberg |Mads S. Thomsen |Julia Baum |Melanie Bishop

Annual Review of Marine Science Vol. 16:- (Volume publication date January 2024) Review in Advance first posted online on September 8, 2023. (Changes may still occur before final publication.) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-042023-093037 *These authors are listed alphabetically

Sep 6, 2023 | nature.com | Thomas Wernberg

Oceans are warming up, and dangerously so. Since April this year, the average global sea surface temperature has been unusually high and rising; by August, oceans in the Northern Hemisphere had reached record-high temperatures, even surpassing 38 °C in one area around Florida.