A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods.
The inability of organisms to cope in changing environments poses a major threat to their survival. Rising carbon dioxide concentrations, recently exceeding 400 μatm, are rapidly warming and acidifying our oceans. Current understanding of organism responses to this environmental phenomenon is based...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/274984 2024-02-04T10:03:35+01:00 A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. Cross, Emma L Harper, Elizabeth M Peck, Lloyd S 2018-06 Print-Electronic application/pdf application/msword application/postscript image/tiff application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274984 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.22136 eng eng Wiley http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14085 Glob Chang Biol https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274984 doi:10.17863/CAM.22136 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ climate change global warming museum specimens ocean acidification shell characteristics Acclimatization Animals Environmental Monitoring Invertebrates Museums Oceans and Seas Article 2018 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.22136 2024-01-11T23:22:00Z The inability of organisms to cope in changing environments poses a major threat to their survival. Rising carbon dioxide concentrations, recently exceeding 400 μatm, are rapidly warming and acidifying our oceans. Current understanding of organism responses to this environmental phenomenon is based mainly on relatively short- to medium-term laboratory and field experiments, which cannot evaluate the potential for long-term acclimation and adaptation, the processes identified as most important to confer resistance. Here, we present data from a novel approach that assesses responses over a centennial timescale showing remarkable resilience to change in a species predicted to be vulnerable. Utilising museum collections allows the assessment of how organisms have coped with past environmental change. It also provides a historical reference for future climate change responses. We evaluated a unique specimen collection of a single species of brachiopod (Calloria inconspicua) collected every decade from 1900 to 2014 from one sampling site. The majority of brachiopod shell characteristics remained unchanged over the past century. One response, however, appears to reinforce their shell by constructing narrower punctae (shell perforations) and laying down more shell. This study indicates one of the most calcium-carbonate-dependent species globally to be highly resilient to environmental change over the last 120 years and provides a new insight for how similar species might react and possibly adapt to future change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
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The inability of organisms to cope in changing environments poses a major threat to their survival. Rising carbon dioxide concentrations, recently exceeding 400 μatm, are rapidly warming and acidifying our oceans. Current understanding of organism responses to this environmental phenomenon is based mainly on relatively short- to medium-term laboratory and field experiments, which cannot evaluate the potential for long-term acclimation and adaptation, the processes identified as most important to confer resistance. Here, we present data from a novel approach that assesses responses over a centennial timescale showing remarkable resilience to change in a species predicted to be vulnerable. Utilising museum collections allows the assessment of how organisms have coped with past environmental change. It also provides a historical reference for future climate change responses. We evaluated a unique specimen collection of a single species of brachiopod (Calloria inconspicua) collected every decade from 1900 to 2014 from one sampling site. The majority of brachiopod shell characteristics remained unchanged over the past century. One response, however, appears to reinforce their shell by constructing narrower punctae (shell perforations) and laying down more shell. This study indicates one of the most calcium-carbonate-dependent species globally to be highly resilient to environmental change over the last 120 years and provides a new insight for how similar species might react and possibly adapt to future change. |
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Cross, Emma L Harper, Elizabeth M Peck, Lloyd S |
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Cross, Emma L Harper, Elizabeth M Peck, Lloyd S |
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Cross, Emma L |
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A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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A 120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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120-year record of resilience to environmental change in brachiopods. |
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2018 |
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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274984 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.22136 |
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Ocean acidification |
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Ocean acidification |
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