Collapse of the echinoid Paracentrotus lividus populations in the Eastern Mediterranean—result of climate change?
The European purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is considered to be a key herbivore throughout its distribution range—North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. It was also abundant in its eastern distributional edge, on rocky habitats of the coastline of Israel, but its populations have rece...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4551984 2023-05-15T17:38:23+02:00 Collapse of the echinoid Paracentrotus lividus populations in the Eastern Mediterranean—result of climate change? Yeruham, Erez Rilov, Gil Shpigel, Muki Abelson, Avigdor 2015-08-28 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551984/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26315893 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13479 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551984/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26315893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13479 Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article Text 2015 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13479 2015-09-13T00:09:06Z The European purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is considered to be a key herbivore throughout its distribution range—North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. It was also abundant in its eastern distributional edge, on rocky habitats of the coastline of Israel, but its populations have recently collapsed, and today it is an extremely rare species in the region. Field and laboratory experiments, that were carried out in order to examine the impact of the recent sea surface temperature rise in the Eastern Mediterranean, showed massive urchin mortality when temperatures crossed 30.5 °C before reaching peak summer values. These results suggest that elevated seawater temperatures in recent years may be a main cause for the disappearance of P. lividus from the southeast Mediterranean Sea, which may indicate distributional range contraction in this region. Text North East Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Scientific Reports 5 1 |
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The European purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is considered to be a key herbivore throughout its distribution range—North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. It was also abundant in its eastern distributional edge, on rocky habitats of the coastline of Israel, but its populations have recently collapsed, and today it is an extremely rare species in the region. Field and laboratory experiments, that were carried out in order to examine the impact of the recent sea surface temperature rise in the Eastern Mediterranean, showed massive urchin mortality when temperatures crossed 30.5 °C before reaching peak summer values. These results suggest that elevated seawater temperatures in recent years may be a main cause for the disappearance of P. lividus from the southeast Mediterranean Sea, which may indicate distributional range contraction in this region. |
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Collapse of the echinoid Paracentrotus lividus populations in the Eastern Mediterranean—result of climate change? |
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