Thermally tolerant corals have limited capacity to acclimatize to future warming

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3036-3049

  Rodolfo Metalpa, Riccardo ^a,e   Hoogenboom, Mia O ^a,f   Rottier, Cécile ^a   Ramos Esplá, Alfonso ^b   Baker, Andrew C ^c   Fine, Maoz ^d   Ferrier Pagès, Christine ^a  

^a Musee Oceanographique de Monaco   (Monaco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral bleaching; Ecological energetics; Invasive species; Mediterranean sea; Physiological plasticity; Thermal adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIOENERGETICS; CORAL; DENSITY; GLOBAL WARMING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84908502144     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12571     Document Type: Article

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