Surviving the Anthropocene: the resilience of marine animals to climate change
Ross, Pauline M., Scanes, Elliot, Byrne, Maria, Ainsworth, Tracy, Donelson, Jennifer M., Foo, Shawna A., Hutchings, Pat, Thiyagarajan, Vengatesen, and Parker, Laura M. (2023) Surviving the Anthropocene: the resilience of marine animals to climate change. In: Hawkins, S.J., Todd, P.A., Russell, B.D., Lemasson, A.J., Allcock, A.L., Byrne, M., Firth, L.B., Lucas, C.H., Marzinelli, E.M., Mumby, P.J., Sharples, J., Smith, I.P., and Swearer, S.E., (eds.) Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review. Taylor & Francis, pp. 35-80.
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Abstract
If marine organisms are to persist through the Anthropocene, they will need to be resilient, but what is resilience, and can resilience of marine organisms build within a single lifetime or over generations? The aim of this review is to evaluate the resilience capacity of marine animals in a time of unprecedented global climate change. Resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem, society, or organism to recover from stress. Marine organisms can build resilience to climate change through phenotypic plasticity or adaptation. Phenotypic plasticity involves phenotypic changes in physiology, morphology, or behaviour which improve the response of an organism in a new environment without altering their genotype. Adaptation is an evolutionary longer process, occurring over many generations and involves the selection of tolerant genotypes which shift the average phenotype within a population towards the fitness peak. Research on resilience of marine organisms has concentrated on responses to specific species and single climate change stressors. It is unknown whether phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of marine organisms including molluscs, echinoderms, polychaetes, crustaceans, corals, and fish will be rapid enough for the pace of climate change.
| Item ID: | 80541 |
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| Item Type: | Book Chapter (Research - B1) |
| ISBN: | 9781000926194 |
| Keywords: | Adaptive capacity, Anthropocene, Marine organisms, Ocean acidification, Ocean warming, Phenotypic plasticity, Resilience, Transgenerational plasticity |
| Copyright Information: | © S.J. Hawkins, P.A. Todd, B.D. Russell, A.J. Lemasson, A.L. Allcock, M. Byrne, L.B. Firth, C.H. Lucas, E.M. Marzinelli, P.J. Mumby, J. Sharples, I.P. Smith, and S.E. Swearer, Editors. Taylor & Francis. This content is open access under the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2023 00:59 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310305 Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) @ 30% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410102 Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation @ 70% |
| SEO Codes: | 19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190102 Ecosystem adaptation to climate change @ 70% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences @ 30% |
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