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  1. Diverging carbonate budgets following tropicalization of temperate reefs

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Albert Pessarrodona

  2. Grazing halos reveal differential ecosystem vulnerabilities in vegetated habitats

    Article • Ecology, November 2025, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  3. Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  4. Significant carbonate production on a temperate reef system in southwestern Australia

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2025, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  5. Expert opinions regarding the concept of blue carbon in seaweed systems

    Article • Phycological Research, August 2025, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  6. Intra‐ and Inter‐Decadal Scale Variability in Kelp Population Structure Reveal Both Stability and Decline in a Critical Foundation Species

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, June 2025, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  7. Strong genetic differentiation and low genetic diversity in a habitat‐forming fucoid seaweed (Cystophora racemosa) across 850 km of its range

    Article • Journal of Phycology, May 2025, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  8. Macroalgae detritus decomposition and cross‐shelf carbon export from shallow and deep reefs

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, March 2025, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  9. Local human pressures modulate turf sediment loads in a warm-temperate oceanic island

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, March 2025, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  10. Connectivity enhances resilience of marine forests after an extreme event

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  11. Long‐Term Stability of Marine Forests Facing Moderate Gradual Warming in a Remote Biodiversity Hotspot

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, October 2024, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  12. Impacts of marine heatwaves in coastal ecosystems depend on local environmental conditions

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2024, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  13. Carbon export from seaweed forests to deep ocean sinks

    Article • Nature Geoscience, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Albert Pessarrodona

  14. Correction to: The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  15. Marine protected areas can be useful but are not a silver bullet for kelp conservation

    Article • Journal of Phycology, March 2024, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  16. Carbon removal and climate change mitigation by seaweed farming: A state of knowledge review

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2024, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  17. Substantial kelp detritus exported beyond the continental shelf by dense shelf water transport

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  18. Recovery of algal turfs following removal

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, November 2023, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  19. The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  20. Blue carbon pathways for climate mitigation: Known, emerging and unlikely

    Article • Marine Policy, October 2023, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  21. Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review

    Article • Biological Reviews, July 2023, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  22. Seaweed forests are carbon sinks that may help mitigate CO2 emissions: a comment on Gallagher et al. (2022)

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Albert Pessarrodona

  23. On the Challenges of Identifying Benthic Dominance on Anthropocene Coral Reefs

    Article • BioScience, March 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Albert Pessarrodona

  24. Functional extinction of a genus of canopy-forming macroalgae (Cystophora spp.) across Western Australia

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  25. Habitat configurations shape the trophic and energetic dynamics of reef fishes in a tropical–temperate transition zone: implications under a warming future

    Article • Oecologia, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  26. On the ecology of Cystophora spp. forests

    Article • Journal of Phycology, October 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  27. Global seaweed productivity

    Article • Science Advances, September 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Albert Pessarrodona

  28. A global dataset of seaweed net primary productivity

    Article • Scientific Data, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  29. Shield wall: Kelps are the last stand against corals in tropicalized reefs

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  30. Climate‐driven shifts in kelp forest composition reduce carbon sequestration potential

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  31. How to quantify algal turf sediments and particulates on tropical and temperate reefs: An overview

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, July 2022, Elsevier

    Albert Pessarrodona

  32. Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Albert Pessarrodona

  33. Persistent thermally driven shift in the functional trait structure of herbivorous fishes: Evidence of top‐down control on the rebound potential of temperate seaweed forests?

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  34. High herbivory despite high sediment loads on a fringing coral reef

    Article • Coral Reefs, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  35. Tropicalization unlocks novel trophic pathways and enhances secondary productivity in temperate reefs

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  36. Intergrading reef communities across discrete seaweed habitats in a temperate–tropical transition zone: Lessons for species reshuffling in a warming ocean

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2022, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  37. Examining the production, export, and immediate fate of kelp detritus on open‐coast subtidal reefs in the Northeast Atlantic

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, November 2021, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  38. Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2021, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  39. Ecological performance differs between range centre and trailing edge populations of a cold-water kelp: implications for estimating net primary productivity

    Article • Marine Biology, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  40. Environmental factors influencing primary productivity of the forest-forming kelp Laminaria hyperborea in the northeast Atlantic

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona

  41. Consumptive and non‐consumptive effects of predators vary with the ontogeny of their prey

    Article • Ecology, April 2019, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  42. Kelp forests may function differently in a warming ocean

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2018, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  43. Role of felp forests in the oceanic carbon cycle threatened by ocean warming

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2018, Wiley

    Albert Pessarrodona

  44. Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Albert Pessarrodona, Dr David Alonso

  45. The effects of warming on the ecophysiology of two co-existing kelp species with contrasting distributions

    Article • Oecologia, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Pessarrodona