Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress
Cold-water corals are threatened by global warming, especially in the Mediterranean Sea where they live close to their upper known thermal limit (i.e. 13°C), yet their response to rising temperatures is not well known. Here, temperature effects on Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata holobionts (i...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rspb.2021.2117 2024-06-02T08:10:11+00:00 Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress Chapron, Leila Galand, Pierre E. Pruski, Audrey M. Peru, Erwan Vétion, Gilles Robin, Sarah Lartaud, Franck Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche Rovaltain Foundation CNRS-INSU TOTAL-UPMC-CNRS Agence Nationale de la Recherche 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2117 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2021.2117 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2021.2117 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences volume 288, issue 1965 ISSN 0962-8452 1471-2954 journal-article 2021 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2117 2024-05-07T14:16:20Z Cold-water corals are threatened by global warming, especially in the Mediterranean Sea where they live close to their upper known thermal limit (i.e. 13°C), yet their response to rising temperatures is not well known. Here, temperature effects on Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata holobionts (i.e. the host and its associated microbiome) were investigated. We found that at warmer seawater temperature (+2°C), L. pertusa showed a modification of its microbiome prior to a change in behaviour, leading to lower energy reserves and skeletal growth, whereas M. oculata was more resilient. At extreme temperature (+4°C), both species quickly lost their specific bacterial signature followed by lower physiological activity prior to death. In addition, our results showing the holobionts' negative response to colder temperatures (−3°C), suggest that Mediterranean corals live close to their thermal optimum. The species-specific response to temperature change highlights that global warming may affect dramatically the main deep-sea reef-builders, which would alter the associated biodiversity and related ecosystem services. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lophelia pertusa The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 1965 |
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Cold-water corals are threatened by global warming, especially in the Mediterranean Sea where they live close to their upper known thermal limit (i.e. 13°C), yet their response to rising temperatures is not well known. Here, temperature effects on Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata holobionts (i.e. the host and its associated microbiome) were investigated. We found that at warmer seawater temperature (+2°C), L. pertusa showed a modification of its microbiome prior to a change in behaviour, leading to lower energy reserves and skeletal growth, whereas M. oculata was more resilient. At extreme temperature (+4°C), both species quickly lost their specific bacterial signature followed by lower physiological activity prior to death. In addition, our results showing the holobionts' negative response to colder temperatures (−3°C), suggest that Mediterranean corals live close to their thermal optimum. The species-specific response to temperature change highlights that global warming may affect dramatically the main deep-sea reef-builders, which would alter the associated biodiversity and related ecosystem services. |
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Chapron, Leila Galand, Pierre E. Pruski, Audrey M. Peru, Erwan Vétion, Gilles Robin, Sarah Lartaud, Franck Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress |
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Chapron, Leila Galand, Pierre E. Pruski, Audrey M. Peru, Erwan Vétion, Gilles Robin, Sarah Lartaud, Franck |
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Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress |
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Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress |
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Resilience of cold-water coral holobionts to thermal stress |
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