Responses of early-life stages of coastal marine invertebrates to different environmental variables ...

• Main Author: Espinosa-Novo, Noé
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2023
• Subjects: Multiple drivers; native and non-native crab species; larval stages; North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean; Hemigrapsus sanguineus; Carcinus maenas; Hemigrapsus takanoi; 570; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26092/elib/2706; https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/7483

Quantifying species responses to the effects of changing environmental conditions is critical for a better understanding of how climate change affects invasion, expansion, and contraction of marine coastal species. Climate change is leading to modifications in the marine coastal environment, to conditions not experienced before; climate change results in that marine organisms experience simultaneous changes in several environmental variables (=drivers: e.g. temperature, salinity, food). How simultaneous changes in multiple drivers are experienced depend on species-specific traits (e.g. physiological tolerance, developmental time); for instance, co-occurring native and non-native species may experience and respond to climate change in different ways. In addition, within species, responses to multiple drivers may vary across populations and environmental gradients. The general objective of this thesis was to quantify the effects of environmental drivers (temperature, salinity and food limitation) on ...