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SCIENCE
Volume 353, Issue 6295, Pages 169-172Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8745
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- Australian Research Council
- Hermon Slade Foundation
- U.K. Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Australian National University
- Western Australian Museum
- Department of Parks and Wildlife
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation [2008/013]
- Marsden Fund of The Royal Society of New Zealand
- WA Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment
- NERC [NE/K008439/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K008439/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Ecosystem reconfigurations arising from climate-driven changes in species distributions are expected to have profound ecological, social, and economic implications. Here we reveal a rapid climate-driven regime shift of Australian temperate reef communities, which lost their defining kelp forests and became dominated by persistent seaweed turfs. After decades of ocean warming, extreme marine heat waves forced a 100-kilometer range contraction of extensive kelp forests and saw temperate species replaced by seaweeds, invertebrates, corals, and fishes characteristic of subtropical and tropical waters. This community-wide tropicalization fundamentally altered key ecological processes, suppressing the recovery of kelp forests.
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