Evolution of Marine Organisms under Climate Change at Different Levels of Biological Organisation

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Ben P. Harvey⁶  Balsam Al-Janabi⁵  Stefanie Broszeit³  Rebekah Cioffi⁴  Amit Kumar⁹  Maria Aranguren-Gassis¹  Allison Bailey²  Leon Green¹³  Carina M. Gsottbauer¹⁴  Emilie F. Hall^6,16  Maria Lechler^6,15  Francesco P. Mancuso³  Camila O. Pereira^6,12  Elena Ricevuto⁹  Julie B. Schram^6,7  Laura S. Stapp^6,10  Simon Stenberg^6,11  Lindzai T. Santa Rosa^6,8 

[1]Ecology and Animal Biology Department, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Vigo 36210, Spain

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[3]Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø NO-9296, Norway

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[5]Scienze Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Via S. Alberto 163, Ravenna I-48100, Italy

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[7]School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK

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[9]GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Duesternbrookerweg 20, Kiel 24105, Germany

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[11]Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DA, UK

[12]Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170, USA

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[14]School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK

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[16]Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Punta San Pietro, Ischia (NA) 80077, Italy

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[18]Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Integrative Ecophysiology, Postfach 120161, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany

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[20]Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), PO Box 5003, Ås 1432, Norway

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[22]Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo, Praça do Oceanográfico, 191, Sala 139, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo 05508-120, Brazil

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[24]Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 405 30, Sweden

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[26]School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK

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[28]Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Via dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, Potenza 85100, Italy

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[30]Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK

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关键词: ocean acidification;    climate change;    acclimation;    evolutionary potential;    adaptation;    biological organisation;    biologically-relevant scales;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w6113545

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Research to date has suggested that both individual marine species and ecological processes are expected to exhibit diverse responses to the environmental effects of climate change. Evolutionary responses can occur on rapid (ecological) timescales, and yet studies typically do not consider the role that adaptive evolution will play in modulating biological responses to climate change. Investigations into such responses have typically been focused at particular biological levels (e.g., cellular, population, community), often lacking interactions among levels. Since all levels of biological organisation are sensitive to global climate change, there is a need to elucidate how different processes and hierarchical interactions will influence species fitness. Therefore, predicting the responses of communities and populations to global change will require multidisciplinary efforts across multiple levels of hierarchy, from the genetic and cellular to communities and ecosystems. Eventually, this may allow us to establish the role that acclimatisation and adaptation will play in determining marine community structures in future scenarios.

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