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Implications of Rising Temperatures: Coastal, Marine and Estuarine Ecosystems



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Rising temperatures, including heat waves, have the potential to profoundly influence coastal, marine, and estuarine systems. What unique considerations must be evaluated to understand these effects from both ecological and human perspectives?

This day-long symposium, presented by the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute and the Delta Stewardship Council, brought together researchers from the natural and social sciences to discuss the state of research on the influence of extreme heat on organisms, communities, and socio-ecological systems.

The symposium was divided into four main sessions, ranging from physical environmental shifts to management implications:

- Physical environments and how they influence biotic responses to heat waves
- Organismal responses, including physiological shifts associated with increased temperatures and population shifts
- Community and ecosystem effects, including shifts in assemblages or ecosystem function
- Management and governance, including the effects of heat wave events on economics and how heat wave events can be integrated into future plans

Learn more about the Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute on our website: http://marinescience.ucdavis.edu

Video Sections:

0:00 “Approaches to investigating responses to warming across scales: from genes to
ecosystems and back again” - Morgan Kelly
32:02 “Are temperatures rising in the ocean and the outer San Francisco Bay estuary?” - John Largier
53:39 “Temperature dynamics and warming in the upper San Francisco Estuary” - Sam Bashevkin
1:13:58 “Fundamental and ecological thermal physiology of Chinook Salmon” - “Fundamental and ecological thermal physiology of Chinook Salmon”
1:32:40 “Adaptation of eelgrass in a variable world: Integrating genomics, field and lab
experiments” - Jay Stachowicz
1:53:10 “Extreme events and kelp forest ecosystems in the Californias” - Rodrigo Beas-Luna
2:14:27 “Exploring the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of an ongoing geographic range shift” - Sam Walkes
2:39:16 “Marine heatwave impacts on community structure and functioning across multiple coastal
ecosystems” - Josh Smith
2:57:43 “Seagrass ecosystem responses to ocean warming across scales” - Lillian Aoki
3:18:46 “Exploring the effects of temperature fluctuations on estuarine fish and invertebrates with
long-term monitoring data” - Denise Colombano
3:41:19 “Cascading impacts of marine heatwaves across northern California’s social-ecological kelp forest ecosystem” - Laura Rogers-Bennett
3:59:48 “Marine heatwave challenges solutions to human-wildlife conflict: the case of large whale
entanglements in the highly lucrative Dungeness crab fishery" - Jameal Samhouri
4:18:15 “Climate change in coastal social-ecological systems: adaptive strategies and barriers to
adaptation” - Arielle Levine
4:40:27 Synthesis and Reflections from the Group - Michael Springborn
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Management
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