Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis
Climate warming has been linked with changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of species and the body size structure of ecological communities. Body size is a master trait underlying a host of physiological, ecological and evolutionary processes. However, the relative importance of environmental d...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-04290544v1 2024-02-27T08:43:26+00:00 Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis Evans, Lowri, E Hirst, Andrew, G Kratina, Pavel Beaugrand, Grégory Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Nord ) 2020-04 https://hal.science/hal-04290544 https://hal.science/hal-04290544/document https://hal.science/hal-04290544/file/Evans%20et%20al%202020.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04631 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/ecog.04631 hal-04290544 https://hal.science/hal-04290544 https://hal.science/hal-04290544/document https://hal.science/hal-04290544/file/Evans%20et%20al%202020.pdf doi:10.1111/ecog.04631 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess EISSN: 1600-0587 Ecography https://hal.science/hal-04290544 Ecography, 2020, 43 (4), pp.581 - 590. ⟨10.1111/ecog.04631⟩ biogeography body size climate warming continuous plankton recorder seasonality species distribution temperature traits zooplankton biogeography body size climate warming continuous plankton recorder seasonality species distribution temperature traits zooplankton [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04631 2024-01-28T00:21:34Z Climate warming has been linked with changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of species and the body size structure of ecological communities. Body size is a master trait underlying a host of physiological, ecological and evolutionary processes. However, the relative importance of environmental drivers and life history strategies on community body size structure across large spatial and temporal scales is poorly understood. We used detailed data of 83 copepod species, monitored over a 57-year period across the North Atlantic, to test how sea surface temperature, thermal and day length seasonality relate to observed latitudinal-size clines of the zooplankton community. The genus Calanus includes dominant taxa in the North Atlantic that overwinter at ocean depth. Thus we compared the copepod community size structure with and without Calanus species, to partition the influence of this life history strategy. The mean community body size of copepods was positively associated with latitude and negatively associated with temperature, suggesting that these communities follow Bergmann's rule. Including Calanus species strengthens these relationships due to their larger than average body sizes and high seasonal abundances, indicating that the latitudinal-size cline may be adaptive. We suggest that seasonal food availability prevents high abundance of smaller-sized copepods at higher latitudes, and that active vertical migration of dominant pelagic species can increase their survival rate over the resource-poor seasons. These findings improve our understanding of the impacts that climate warming has on ecological communities, with potential consequences for trophic interactions and biogeochemical processes that are well known to be size dependent. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Copepods Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Ecography 43 4 581 590 |
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biogeography body size climate warming continuous plankton recorder seasonality species distribution temperature traits zooplankton biogeography body size climate warming continuous plankton recorder seasonality species distribution temperature traits zooplankton [SDE]Environmental Sciences Evans, Lowri, E Hirst, Andrew, G Kratina, Pavel Beaugrand, Grégory Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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Climate warming has been linked with changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of species and the body size structure of ecological communities. Body size is a master trait underlying a host of physiological, ecological and evolutionary processes. However, the relative importance of environmental drivers and life history strategies on community body size structure across large spatial and temporal scales is poorly understood. We used detailed data of 83 copepod species, monitored over a 57-year period across the North Atlantic, to test how sea surface temperature, thermal and day length seasonality relate to observed latitudinal-size clines of the zooplankton community. The genus Calanus includes dominant taxa in the North Atlantic that overwinter at ocean depth. Thus we compared the copepod community size structure with and without Calanus species, to partition the influence of this life history strategy. The mean community body size of copepods was positively associated with latitude and negatively associated with temperature, suggesting that these communities follow Bergmann's rule. Including Calanus species strengthens these relationships due to their larger than average body sizes and high seasonal abundances, indicating that the latitudinal-size cline may be adaptive. We suggest that seasonal food availability prevents high abundance of smaller-sized copepods at higher latitudes, and that active vertical migration of dominant pelagic species can increase their survival rate over the resource-poor seasons. These findings improve our understanding of the impacts that climate warming has on ecological communities, with potential consequences for trophic interactions and biogeochemical processes that are well known to be size dependent. |
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Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Nord ) |
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Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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Temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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temperature‐mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis |
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https://hal.science/hal-04290544 https://hal.science/hal-04290544/document https://hal.science/hal-04290544/file/Evans%20et%20al%202020.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04631 |
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EISSN: 1600-0587 Ecography https://hal.science/hal-04290544 Ecography, 2020, 43 (4), pp.581 - 590. ⟨10.1111/ecog.04631⟩ |
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