Distribution models predict large contractions of habitat‐forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming

This study was funded by the ARC-NZ Vegetation Function Network (working group 58: climate impacts on seaweeds, convened by TW). Additional support was provided by the Australian Research Council (Linkage, TW, CFDG, SDC, BDR, Future Fellowships, TW, SDC, CJAB). BM received travel funding from Rey Juan Carlos University and research supporting by projects CGL2010-19301 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. MST was funded by the Marsden Fund of The Royal Society of New Zealand (13-UOC-106). The authors thank the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) for access to the AVH database. Data are available through BM and TW. The authors declare no conflict of interests.