To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification?
Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is being absorbed by seawater resulting in increasingly acidic oceans, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA is thought to have largely deleterious effects on marine invertebrates, primarily impacting early life stages and consequently, their...
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ftria:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/17928 2023-05-15T17:50:27+02:00 To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? Lucey, Noelle Marie Lombardi, Chiara DeMarchi, Lucia Schulze, Anja Gambi, Maria Cristina Calosi, Piero 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17928 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12009 eng eng Nature Publishing Group 2045-2322 http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17928 doi:10.1038/srep12009 openAccess article 2015 ftria https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12009 2022-05-25T18:35:15Z Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is being absorbed by seawater resulting in increasingly acidic oceans, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA is thought to have largely deleterious effects on marine invertebrates, primarily impacting early life stages and consequently, their recruitment and species’ survival. Most research in this field has been limited to short-term, single-species and single-life stage studies, making it difficult to determine which taxa will be evolutionarily successful under OA conditions. We circumvent these limitations by relating the dominance and distribution of the known polychaete worm species living in a naturally acidic seawater vent system to their life history strategies. These data are coupled with breeding experiments, showing all dominant species in this natural system exhibit parental care. Our results provide evidence supporting the idea that long-term survival of marine species in acidic conditions is related to life history strategies where eggs are kept in protected maternal environments (brooders) or where larvae have no free swimming phases (direct developers). Our findings are the first to formally validate the hypothesis that species with life history strategies linked to parental care are more protected in an acidifying ocean compared to their relatives employing broadcast spawning and pelagic larval development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro (RIA) Scientific Reports 5 1 |
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Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is being absorbed by seawater resulting in increasingly acidic oceans, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA is thought to have largely deleterious effects on marine invertebrates, primarily impacting early life stages and consequently, their recruitment and species’ survival. Most research in this field has been limited to short-term, single-species and single-life stage studies, making it difficult to determine which taxa will be evolutionarily successful under OA conditions. We circumvent these limitations by relating the dominance and distribution of the known polychaete worm species living in a naturally acidic seawater vent system to their life history strategies. These data are coupled with breeding experiments, showing all dominant species in this natural system exhibit parental care. Our results provide evidence supporting the idea that long-term survival of marine species in acidic conditions is related to life history strategies where eggs are kept in protected maternal environments (brooders) or where larvae have no free swimming phases (direct developers). Our findings are the first to formally validate the hypothesis that species with life history strategies linked to parental care are more protected in an acidifying ocean compared to their relatives employing broadcast spawning and pelagic larval development. |
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To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? |
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To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? |
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To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? |
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To brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? |
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to brood or not to brood: are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? |
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