Coping with a changing world: adaptive mechanisms in marine three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

• Main Author: Schade, Franziska Maria
• Other Authors: Wegner, K. Mathias, Hinrich Schulenburg
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: thesis; ddc:000; Climate change; fish; parasites; adaptation; phenotypic plasticity; transgenerational acclimation; Klimawandel; Fische; Parasiten; Phänotypische Plastizität; Transgenerationale Akklimatisierung; Wandel; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-143928; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00014392; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dissertation_derivate_00005395/diss_schade.pdf

Due to ongoing increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere, the world’s climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, leading to rising global mean air and water temperatures. When atmospheric CO2 dissolves in seawater, ocean pH declines, causing an acidification of the ocean....