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Climate Change and Intertidal Biogeography: Coupling Remote Sensing Data to Thermal Physiology

Helmuth, Brian: University of South Carolina (Project Lead)

Project Funding: 2004 - 2007

NRA: 2003 NASA: Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science   

Funded by NASA

Publications:

Berke, S. K., Mahon, A. R., Lima, F. P., Halanych, K. M., Wethey, D. S., Woodin, S. A. 2010. Range shifts and species diversity in marine ecosystem engineers: patterns and predictions for European sedimentary habitats. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 19(2), 223-232. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00509.x

Brannock, P., Hilbish, T. 2010. Hybridization results in high levels of sterility and restricted introgression between invasive and endemic marine blue mussels. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 406, 161-171. DOI: 10.3354/meps08522

Brannock, P., Roberts, M., Hilbish, T. 2013. Ubiquitous heteroplasmy in Mytilus spp. resulting from disruption in doubly uniparental inheritance regulation. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 480, 131-143. DOI: 10.3354/meps10228

Brannock, P., Wethey, D., Hilbish, T. 2009. Extensive hybridization with minimal introgression in Mytilus galloprovincialis and M. trossulus in Hokkaido, Japan. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 383, 161-171. DOI: 10.3354/meps07995

Broitman, B. R., Mieszkowska, N., Helmuth, B., Blanchette, C. A. 2008. CLIMATE AND RECRUITMENT OF ROCKY SHORE INTERTIDAL INVERTEBRATES IN THE EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. Ecology. 89(sp11), S81-S90. DOI: 10.1890/08-0635.1

Broitman, B. R., Szathmary, P. L., Mislan, K. A. S., Blanchette, C. A., Helmuth, B. 2009. Predator-prey interactions under climate change: the importance of habitat vs body temperature. Oikos. 118(2), 219-224. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17075.x

BUDAEVA, N., FAUCHALD, K. 2011. Phylogeny of the Diopatra generic complex with a revision of Paradiopatra Ehlres, 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 163(2), 319-436. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00701.x

Castillo, K. D., Lima, F. P. 2010. Comparison of in situ and satellite-derived (MODIS-Aqua/Terra) methods for assessing temperatures on coral reefs. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 8(3), 107-117. DOI: 10.4319/lom.2010.8.0107

Fly, E. K., Hilbish, T. J. 2012. Physiological energetics and biogeographic range limits of three congeneric mussel species. Oecologia. 172(1), 35-46. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2486-6

Fly, E. K., Monaco, C. J., Pincebourde, S., Tullis, A. 2012. The influence of intertidal location and temperature on the metabolic cost of emersion in Pisaster ochraceus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 422-423, 20-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.04.007

Gilman, S. E., Harley, C. D., Strickland, D. C., Vanderstraeten, O., O'Donnell, M. J., Helmuth, B. 2006. Evaluation of effective shore level as a method of characterizing intertidal wave exposure regimes. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 4(11), 448-457. DOI: 10.4319/lom.2006.4.448

Gilman, S. E., Wethey, D. S., Helmuth, B. 2006. Variation in the sensitivity of organismal body temperature to climate change over local and geographic scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(25), 9560-9565. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510992103

Helmuth, B. 2009. From cells to coastlines: how can we use physiology to forecast the impacts of climate change? Journal of Experimental Biology. 212(6), 753-760. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.023861

Helmuth, B., Broitman, B. R., Blanchette, C. A., Gilman, S., Halpin, P., Harley, C. D. G., O'Donnell, M. J., Hofmann, G. E., Menge, B., Strickland, D. 2006. MOSAIC PATTERNS OF THERMAL STRESS IN THE ROCKY INTERTIDAL ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. Ecological Monographs. 76(4), 461-479. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2006)076[0461:mpotsi]2.0.co;2

Helmuth, B., Broitman, B. R., Yamane, L., Gilman, S. E., Mach, K., Mislan, K. A. S., Denny, M. W. 2010. Organismal climatology: analyzing environmental variability at scales relevant to physiological stress. Journal of Experimental Biology. 213(6), 995-1003. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.038463

Helmuth, B., Choi, F., Matzelle, A., Torossian, J. L., Morello, S. L., Mislan, K. A. S., Yamane, L., Strickland, D., Szathmary, P. L., Gilman, S. E., Tockstein, A., Hilbish, T. J., Burrows, M. T., Power, A. M., Gosling, E., Mieszkowska, N., Harley, C. D., Nishizaki, M., Carrington, E., Menge, B., Petes, L., Foley, M. M., Johnson, A., Poole, M., Noble, M. M., Richmond, E. L., Robart, M., Robinson, J., Sapp, J., Sones, J., Broitman, B. R., Denny, M. W., Mach, K. J., Miller, L. P., O'Donnell, M., Ross, P., Hofmann, G. E., Zippay, M., Blanchette, C., Macfarlan, J. A., Carpizo-Ituarte, E., Ruttenberg, B., Pena Mejia, C. E., McQuaid, C. D., Lathlean, J., Monaco, C. J., Nicastro, K. R., Zardi, G. 2016. Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors. Scientific Data. 3(1). DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.87

Helmuth, B., Mieszkowska, N., Moore, P., Hawkins, S. J. 2006. Living on the Edge of Two Changing Worlds: Forecasting the Responses of Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems to Climate Change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 37(1), 373-404. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110149

Helmuth, B., Yamane, L., Lalwani, S., Matzelle, A., Tockstein, A., Gao, N. 2011. Hidden signals of climate change in intertidal ecosystems: What (not) to expect when you are expecting. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400(1-2), 191-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.004

Hilbish, T. J., Brannock, P. M., Jones, K. R., Smith, A. B., Bullock, B. N., Wethey, D. S. 2010. Historical changes in the distributions of invasive and endemic marine invertebrates are contrary to global warming predictions: the effects of decadal climate oscillations. Journal of Biogeography. 37(3), 423-431. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02218.x

Hilbish, T. J., Lima, F. P., Brannock, P. M., Fly, E. K., Rognstad, R. L., Wethey, D. S. 2011. Change and stasis in marine hybrid zones in response to climate warming. Journal of Biogeography. 39(4), 676-687. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02633.x

Jones, S. J., Lima, F. P., Wethey, D. S. 2010. Rising environmental temperatures and biogeography: poleward range contraction of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis L., in the western Atlantic. Journal of Biogeography. 37(12), 2243-2259. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02386.x

Jones, S. J., Mieszkowska, N., Wethey, D. S. 2009. Linking Thermal Tolerances and Biogeography:Mytilus edulis(L.) at its Southern Limit on the East Coast of the United States. The Biological Bulletin. 217(1), 73-85. DOI: 10.1086/bblv217n1p73

Jones, S. J., Southward, A. J., Wethey, D. S. 2011. Climate change and historical biogeography of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 21(7), 716-724. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00721.x

Kearney, M., Simpson, S. J., Raubenheimer, D., Helmuth, B. 2010. Modelling the ecological niche from functional traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365(1557), 3469-3483. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0034

Lima, F. P., Wethey, D. S. 2009. Robolimpets: measuring intertidal body temperatures using biomimetic loggers. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 7(5), 347-353. DOI: 10.4319/lom.2009.7.347

Mislan, K. A. S., Helmuth, B., Wethey, D. S. 2014. Geographical variation in climatic sensitivity of intertidal mussel zonation. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23(7), 744-756. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12160

Mislan, K. A. S., Wethey, D. S. 2011. Gridded meteorological data as a resource for mechanistic macroecology in coastal environments. Ecological Applications. 21(7), 2678-2690. DOI: 10.1890/10-2049.1

MISLAN, K. A. S., WETHEY, D. S., HELMUTH, B. 2009. When to worry about the weather: role of tidal cycle in determining patterns of risk in intertidal ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 15(12), 3056-3065. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01936.x

Pincebourde, P., Sanford, S., Helmuth, H. 2009. An Intertidal Sea Star Adjusts Thermal Inertia to Avoid Extreme Body Temperatures. The American Naturalist. 174(6), 890. DOI: 10.2307/27735902

Pincebourde, S., Sanford, E., Casas, J., Helmuth, B. 2012. Temporal coincidence of environmental stress events modulates predation rates. Ecology Letters. 15(7), 680-688. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01785.x

Pincebourde, S., Sanford, E., Helmuth, B. 2008. Body temperature during low tide alters the feeding performance of a top intertidal predator. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(4), 1562-1573. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.4.1562

Pincebourde, S., Sanford, E., Helmuth, B. 2009. An Intertidal Sea Star Adjusts Thermal Inertia to Avoid Extreme Body Temperatures. The American Naturalist. 174(6), 890-897. DOI: 10.1086/648065

Pincebourde, S., Sanford, E., Helmuth, B. 2013. Survival and arm abscission are linked to regional heterothermy in an intertidal sea star. Journal of Experimental Biology. 216(12), 2183-2191. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.083881

Rondas, D., Tomas, A., Soto-Ribeiro, M., Wehrle-Haller, B., Halban, P. A. 2012. Novel Mechanistic Link between Focal Adhesion Remodeling and Glucose-stimulated Insulin Secretion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(4), 2423-2436. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.279885

Schneider, K. R. 2008. Heat Stress in the Intertidal: Comparing Survival and Growth of an Invasive and Native Mussel Under a Variety of Thermal Conditions. The Biological Bulletin. 215(3), 253-264. DOI: 10.2307/25470709

Schneider, K. R., Van Thiel, L. E., Helmuth, B. 2010. Interactive effects of food availability and aerial body temperature on the survival of two intertidal Mytilus species. Journal of Thermal Biology. 35(4), 161-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2010.02.003

Schneider, K., Helmuth, B. 2007. Spatial variability in habitat temperature may drive patterns of selection between an invasive and native mussel species. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 339, 157-167. DOI: 10.3354/meps339157

Seabra, R., Wethey, D. S., Santos, A. M., Lima, F. P. 2011. Side matters: Microhabitat influence on intertidal heat stress over a large geographical scale. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400(1-2), 200-208. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.010

Sorte, C. J., Jones, S. J., Miller, L. P. 2011. Geographic variation in temperature tolerance as an indicator of potential population responses to climate change. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400(1-2), 209-217. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.009

Sousa, L. L., Seabra, R., Wethey, D. S., Xavier, R., Queiroz, N., Zenboudji, S., Lima, F. P. 2012. Fate of a climate-driven colonisation: Demography of newly established populations of the limpet Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758, in northern Portugal. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 438, 68-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.09.005

Sutton, J., Lakshmi, V. 2017. From Space to the Rocky Intertidal: Using NASA MODIS Sea Surface Temperature and NOAA Water Temperature to Predict Intertidal Logger Temperature. Remote Sensing. 9(2), 162. DOI: 10.3390/rs9020162

Szathmary, P., Helmuth, B., Wethey, D. 2009. Climate change in the rocky intertidal zone: predicting and measuring the body temperature of a keystone predator. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 374, 43-56. DOI: 10.3354/meps07682

Volkenborn, N., Polerecky, L., Wethey, D. S., Woodin, S. A. 2010. Oscillatory porewater bioadvection in marine sediments induced by hydraulic activities of Arenicola marina. Limnology and Oceanography. 55(3), 1231-1247. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1231

Wethey, D. S., Brin, L. D., Helmuth, B., Mislan, K. A. S. 2011. Predicting intertidal organism temperatures with modified land surface models. Ecological Modelling. 222(19), 3568-3576. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.08.019

Wethey, D. S., Woodin, S. A. 2008. Ecological hindcasting of biogeographic responses to climate change in the European intertidal zone. Hydrobiologia. 606(1), 139-151. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9338-8

Wethey, D. S., Woodin, S. A. 2022. Climate change and Arenicola marina: Heat waves and the southern limit of an ecosystem engineer. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 276, 108015. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108015

Wethey, D. S., Woodin, S. A., Hilbish, T. J., Jones, S. J., Lima, F. P., Brannock, P. M. 2011. Response of intertidal populations to climate: Effects of extreme events versus long term change. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400(1-2), 132-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.008

Witman, J. D., Cusson, M., Archambault, P., Pershing, A. J., Mieszkowska, N. 2008. THE RELATION BETWEEN PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIES DIVERSITY IN TEMPERATE-ARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. Ecology. 89(sp11), S66-S80. DOI: 10.1890/07-1201.1

Woodin, S. A., Wethey, D. S., Volkenborn, N. 2010. Infaunal Hydraulic Ecosystem Engineers: Cast of Characters and Impacts. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50(2), 176-187. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq031

Yamane, L., Gilman, S. 2009. Opposite responses by an intertidal predator to increasing aquatic and aerial temperatures. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 393, 27-36. DOI: 10.3354/meps08276


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