Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is a pervasive threat to coral reef ecosystems, and our understanding of the ecological processes driving patterns in tropical benthic community development in conditions of acidification is limited. We deployed limestone recruitment tiles in low aragonite saturation (Ωarag) wate...
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ftrepnacmexico:oai:cicy.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1003/493 2023-05-15T17:50:38+02:00 Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification LAURA MARGARITA HERNANDEZ TERRONES MARIO REBOLLEDO VIEYRA 2016-01-01 application/pdf http://cicy.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1003/493 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/dataset/DOI/DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0146707 citation:Crook, E. D., Kroeker, K. J., Potts, D. C., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Hernandez-Terrones, L. M., & Paytan, A. (2016). Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification. PloS one, 11(1), e0146707. http://cicy.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1003/493 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND PLoS ONE. 11(1), e0146707, 2016 info:eu-repo/classification/Autores/CRUSTOSE CORALLINE ALGAE info:eu-repo/classification/Autores/FILAMENTOUS TURF ALGAE info:eu-repo/classification/Autores/LARVAL METAMORPHOSIS info:eu-repo/classification/Autores/NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT info:eu-repo/classification/Autores/MARINE ORGANISMS info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftrepnacmexico https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146707 2021-07-02T06:23:17Z Ocean acidification is a pervasive threat to coral reef ecosystems, and our understanding of the ecological processes driving patterns in tropical benthic community development in conditions of acidification is limited. We deployed limestone recruitment tiles in low aragonite saturation (Ωarag) waters during an in-situ field experiment at Puerto Morelos, Mexico, and compared them to tiles placed in control zones over a 14-month investigation. The early stages of succession showed relatively little difference in coverage of calcifying organisms between the low Ωarag and control zones. However, after 14 months of development, tiles from the low Ωarag zones had up to 70% less cover of calcifying organisms coincident with 42% more fleshy algae than the controls. The percent cover of biofilm and turf algae was also significantly greater in the low Ωarag zones, while the number of key grazing taxa remained constant. We hypothesize that fleshy algae have a competitive edge over the primary calcified space holders, coralline algae, and that acidification leads to altered competitive dynamics between various taxa. We suggest that as acidification impacts reefs in the future, there will be a shift in community assemblages away from upright and crustose coralline algae toward more fleshy algae and turf, established in the early stages of succession. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Repositorio Nacional Gobierno de Mexico PLOS ONE 11 1 e0146707 |
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Ocean acidification is a pervasive threat to coral reef ecosystems, and our understanding of the ecological processes driving patterns in tropical benthic community development in conditions of acidification is limited. We deployed limestone recruitment tiles in low aragonite saturation (Ωarag) waters during an in-situ field experiment at Puerto Morelos, Mexico, and compared them to tiles placed in control zones over a 14-month investigation. The early stages of succession showed relatively little difference in coverage of calcifying organisms between the low Ωarag and control zones. However, after 14 months of development, tiles from the low Ωarag zones had up to 70% less cover of calcifying organisms coincident with 42% more fleshy algae than the controls. The percent cover of biofilm and turf algae was also significantly greater in the low Ωarag zones, while the number of key grazing taxa remained constant. We hypothesize that fleshy algae have a competitive edge over the primary calcified space holders, coralline algae, and that acidification leads to altered competitive dynamics between various taxa. We suggest that as acidification impacts reefs in the future, there will be a shift in community assemblages away from upright and crustose coralline algae toward more fleshy algae and turf, established in the early stages of succession. |
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LAURA MARGARITA HERNANDEZ TERRONES |
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Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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Recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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recruitment and succession in a tropical benthic community in response to in-situ ocean acidification |
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