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Surviving Heatwaves: Thermal Experience Predicts Life and Death in a Southern Ocean Diatom

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Extreme environmental fluctuations such as marine heatwaves (MHWs) can have devastating effects on ecosystem health and functioning through rapid population declines and destabilization of trophic interactions.
Toby Samuels, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Sinéad Collins   +2 more
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Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human‐Induced Global Warming [PDF]

, 2022
Much of the focus of global warming impacts on lakes have focused on changes in mean temperature. However, lakes are also highly vulnerable to thermal extremes. Such extremes occur, by definition, during lake heatwaves.
R. Iestyn Woolway, Thomas L. Frölicher, Woolway, R. Iestyn, Marjorie Perroud, Frölicher, Thomas L., Clément Albergel, Albergel, Clément, Perroud, Marjorie   +7 more
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Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2023
Heatwaves are increasing in frequency, duration, and intensity in ocean, coastal, and lake ecosystems. While positive water temperature trends have been documented in many rivers, heatwaves have not been analyzed.
Spencer J. Tassone, Alice F. Besterman, Cal D. Buelo, Dat T. Ha, Jonathan A. Walter, Michael L. Pace   +5 more
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Heatwave effects on gross primary production of northern mid-latitude ecosystems

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Heatwave events are expected to become more frequent and intense in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere in the future. However, our knowledge of the impacts of these extreme temperature events on ecosystem functions is still limited.
Hang Xu, Jingfeng Xiao, Zhiqiang Zhang
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An analysis of past and future heatwaves based on a heat-associated mortality threshold: towards a heat health warning system

Environmental Health, 2022
Heatwaves can have severe impacts on human health extending from illness to mortality. These health effects are related to not only the physical phenomenon of heat itself but other characteristics such as frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves ...
Thandi Kapwata, Michael T. Gebreslasie, Caradee Y. Wright   +2 more
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Natural hazards in Australia : heatwaves [PDF]

, 2016
As part of a special issue on natural hazards, this paper reviews the current state of scientific knowledge of Australian heatwaves. Over recent years, progress has been made in understanding both the causes of and changes to heatwaves.
Oliver, ECJ, White, C., Argüeso, D, Purich, A, White, C. J., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Ekström, M, Cowan, T, Evans, J. P., Phatak, A., Oliver, E. C.J., Phatak, Aloke, Evans, J., Boschat, G, Boschat, G., Alexander, L. V., Cowan, T., Argüeso, D., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. E., Oliver, E., White, CJ, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, SE, Ekström, M., Phatak, A, Alexander, L., Purich, A., Ekstrom, Marie, Oliver, E. C. J., Alexander, LV, Evans, JP   +29 more
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Heatwave Duration and Heating Rate in a Non‐Stationary Climate: Spatiotemporal Pattern and Key Drivers

Earth's Future, 2023
Heatwaves have had adverse affects on human life, ecosystems, and society. Global warming is expected to heighten the characteristics of heatwaves such as severity, duration, and frequency. Therefore, understanding the evolution of heatwaves is a central
Fatemeh Chitsaz, Alireza Gohari, Mohammad Reza Najafi, Mohammad Javad Zareian, Ali Torabi Haghighi   +4 more
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Extreme heat events heighten soil respiration

Scientific Reports, 2021
In the wake of climate change, extreme events such as heatwaves are considered to be key players in the terrestrial biosphere. In the past decades, the frequency and severity of heatwaves have risen substantially, and they are projected to continue to ...
Hassan Anjileli, Laurie S. Huning, Hamed Moftakhari, Samaneh Ashraf, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Hamid Norouzi, Amir AghaKouchak   +6 more
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Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves [PDF]

Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent, widespread and severe, causing mass coral bleaching and mortality. Natural adaptation may be insufficient to keep pace with climate warming, leading to calls for selective breeding interventions to enhance the
Buzzoni, D., Bythell, J., Lachs, L., Sweet, M., Wilson, A., Beauchamp, E., Craggs, J., Palmowski, P., Bukurou, L., Martinez, H. M., Humanes, A., de la Torre Cerro, R., Edwards, A. J., van der Steeg, E., Ward, A., Guest, J., Golbuu, Y.   +16 more
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Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China

Weather and Climate Extremes
With increased global warming, heatwaves are expected to become more intense, frequent, and persistent. Although the spatiotemporal characteristics of heatwaves have been extensively studied, the vast majority of these studies have solely used near ...
Jintao Zhang, Guoyu Ren, Qinglong You
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