Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate

L Ratnarajah, R Abu-Alhaija, A Atkinson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Zooplankton are major consumers of phytoplankton primary production in marine
ecosystems. As such, they represent a critical link for energy and matter transfer between …

Interactive effects of warming and pollutants on marine and freshwater invertebrates

KV Dinh, HS Konestabo, K Borgå, K Hylland… - Current Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Global warming and pollution are among the five major causes
of global biodiversity loss, particularly in aquatic invertebrates which are highly diverse but …

Greater evolutionary divergence of thermal limits within marine than terrestrial species

M Sasaki, JM Barley, S Gignoux-Wolfsohn… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
There is considerable uncertainty regarding which ecosystems are most vulnerable to
warming. Current understanding of organismal sensitivity is largely centred on species-level …

Experimental evolution reveals the synergistic genomic mechanisms of adaptation to ocean warming and acidification in a marine copepod

RS Brennan, JA DeMayo, HG Dam… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Metazoan adaptation to global change relies on selection of standing genetic variation.
Determining the extent to which this variation exists in natural populations, particularly for …

Interactive effects of increasing temperature and decreasing oxygen on coastal copepods

MR Roman, JJ Pierson - The Biological Bulletin, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The copepods of coastal seas are experiencing warming water temperatures, which
increase their oxygen demand. In addition, many coastal seas are also losing oxygen …

Facilitation of animals is stronger during summer marine heatwaves and around morphologically complex foundation species

S Montie, MS Thomsen - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Foundation species create biogenic habitats, modify environmental conditions, augment
biodiversity, and control animal community structures. In recent decades, marine heatwaves …

Naupliar exposure to acute warming does not affect ontogenetic patterns in respiration, body size, or development time in the cosmopolitan copepod Acartia tonsa

M Holmes-Hackerd, M Sasaki, HG Dam - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Short-term, acute warming events are increasing in frequency across the world's oceans. For
short-lived species like most copepods, these extreme events can occur over both within …

[HTML][HTML] Combined stress of an insecticide and heatwaves or elevated temperature induce community and food web effects in a Mediterranean freshwater ecosystem

M Hermann, F Polazzo, L Cherta, M Crettaz-Minaglia… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Ongoing global climate change will shift nature towards Anthropocene's unprecedented
conditions by increasing average temperatures and the frequency and severity of extreme …

When the Going Gets Tough, the Females Get Going: Sex‐Specific Physiological Responses to Simultaneous Exposure to Hypoxia and Marine Heatwave Events in a …

F Vermandele, M Sasaki, G Winkler… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of sex‐specific differences in phenotypic traits is widely recognized. Yet they
are often ignored in studies looking at the impact of global changes on marine organisms …

Shifts in survival and reproduction after chronic warming enhance the potential of a marine copepod to persist under extreme heat events

C de Juan, A Calbet, E Saiz - Journal of Plankton Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The study of a species' thermal tolerance and vital rates responses provides useful metrics
to characterize its vulnerability to ocean warming. Under prolonged thermal stress, plastic …