Chapter Surving the Anthropocene

Chapter Surving the Anthropocene

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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...

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Main Author: Ross, Pauline M. (auth)
Other Authors: Scanes, Elliot (auth), Byrne, Maria (auth), Ainsworth, Tracy D. (auth), Donelson, Jennifer M. (auth), Foo, Shawna A. (auth), Hutchings, Pat (auth), Thiyagarajan, Vengatesen (auth), Parker, Laura M. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Abingdon Taylor & Francis 2023
Subjects:
Applied ecology
The Earth: natural history general
Oceanography (seas)
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Climate change
Marine biology
Anthropocene
Phenotypic Plasticity
Resilience
Transgenerational Plasticity
Ocean Warming
Ocean Acidification
Marine Organisms
Adaptive Capacity
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (45 p.)
ISBN:9781003363873-3
9781032426969
9781032548456
9781003363873
Access:Open Access

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