Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time
Identifying how past environmental conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletal traits provides a framework for predicting their persistence and that of their non-calcifying relatives under impending global warming and ocean acidification. Here we show that ocean geochemistry, partic...
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ftlouisianastuir:oai:digitalcommons.lsu.edu:biosci_pubs-5214 2023-06-11T04:15:39+02:00 Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time Quattrini, Andrea M Rodríguez, Estefanía Faircloth, Brant C Cowman, Peter F Brugler, Mercer R Farfan, Gabriela A Hellberg, Michael E Kitahara, Marcelo V 2020-11-01T07:00:00Z https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/biosci_pubs/4208 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01291-1 unknown LSU Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/biosci_pubs/4208 doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01291-1 Faculty Publications text 2020 ftlouisianastuir https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01291-1 2023-05-28T18:51:38Z Identifying how past environmental conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletal traits provides a framework for predicting their persistence and that of their non-calcifying relatives under impending global warming and ocean acidification. Here we show that ocean geochemistry, particularly aragonite-calcite seas, drives patterns of morphological evolution in anthozoans (corals, sea anemones) by examining skeletal traits in the context of a robust, time-calibrated phylogeny. The lability of skeletal composition among octocorals suggests a greater ability to adapt to changes in ocean chemistry compared with the homogeneity of the aragonitic skeleton of scleractinian corals. Pulses of diversification in anthozoans follow mass extinctions and reef crises, with sea anemones and proteinaceous corals filling empty niches as tropical reef builders went extinct. Changing environmental conditions will likely diminish aragonitic reef-building scleractinians, but the evolutionary history of the Anthozoa suggests other groups will persist and diversify in their wake. Text Ocean acidification LSU Digital Commons (Louisiana State University) Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 11 1531 1538 |
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Identifying how past environmental conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletal traits provides a framework for predicting their persistence and that of their non-calcifying relatives under impending global warming and ocean acidification. Here we show that ocean geochemistry, particularly aragonite-calcite seas, drives patterns of morphological evolution in anthozoans (corals, sea anemones) by examining skeletal traits in the context of a robust, time-calibrated phylogeny. The lability of skeletal composition among octocorals suggests a greater ability to adapt to changes in ocean chemistry compared with the homogeneity of the aragonitic skeleton of scleractinian corals. Pulses of diversification in anthozoans follow mass extinctions and reef crises, with sea anemones and proteinaceous corals filling empty niches as tropical reef builders went extinct. Changing environmental conditions will likely diminish aragonitic reef-building scleractinians, but the evolutionary history of the Anthozoa suggests other groups will persist and diversify in their wake. |
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Quattrini, Andrea M Rodríguez, Estefanía Faircloth, Brant C Cowman, Peter F Brugler, Mercer R Farfan, Gabriela A Hellberg, Michael E Kitahara, Marcelo V Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time |
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Quattrini, Andrea M Rodríguez, Estefanía Faircloth, Brant C Cowman, Peter F Brugler, Mercer R Farfan, Gabriela A Hellberg, Michael E Kitahara, Marcelo V |
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Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time |
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Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time |
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Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time |
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palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time |
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