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Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions

Temperature variability is a major driver of ecological pattern, with recent changes in average and extreme temperatures having significant impacts on populations, communities and ecosystems. In the marine realm, very few experiments have manipulated temperature in situ, and current understanding of...

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Autores principales: Smale, Dan A., Taylor, Joe D., Coombs, Steve H., Moore, Gerald, Cunliffe, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0534
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author Smale, Dan A.
Taylor, Joe D.
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description Temperature variability is a major driver of ecological pattern, with recent changes in average and extreme temperatures having significant impacts on populations, communities and ecosystems. In the marine realm, very few experiments have manipulated temperature in situ, and current understanding of temperature effects on community dynamics is limited. We developed new technology for precise seawater temperature control to examine warming effects on communities of bacteria, microbial eukaryotes (protists) and metazoans. Despite highly contrasting phylogenies, size spectra and diversity levels, the three community types responded similarly to seawater warming treatments of +3°C and +5°C, highlighting the critical and overarching importance of temperature in structuring communities. Temperature effects were detectable at coarse taxonomic resolutions and many taxa responded positively to warming, leading to increased abundances at the community-level. Novel field-based experimental approaches are essential to improve mechanistic understanding of how ocean warming will alter the structure and functioning of diverse marine communities.
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spelling pubmed-55978212017-09-18 Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions Smale, Dan A. Taylor, Joe D. Coombs, Steve H. Moore, Gerald Cunliffe, Michael Proc Biol Sci Ecology Temperature variability is a major driver of ecological pattern, with recent changes in average and extreme temperatures having significant impacts on populations, communities and ecosystems. In the marine realm, very few experiments have manipulated temperature in situ, and current understanding of temperature effects on community dynamics is limited. We developed new technology for precise seawater temperature control to examine warming effects on communities of bacteria, microbial eukaryotes (protists) and metazoans. Despite highly contrasting phylogenies, size spectra and diversity levels, the three community types responded similarly to seawater warming treatments of +3°C and +5°C, highlighting the critical and overarching importance of temperature in structuring communities. Temperature effects were detectable at coarse taxonomic resolutions and many taxa responded positively to warming, leading to increased abundances at the community-level. Novel field-based experimental approaches are essential to improve mechanistic understanding of how ocean warming will alter the structure and functioning of diverse marine communities. The Royal Society 2017-09-13 2017-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5597821/ /pubmed/28878056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0534 Text en © 2017 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title_full Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title_fullStr Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title_full_unstemmed Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title_short Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
title_sort community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions
topic Ecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0534
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