Publication Date:
2024-03-15
Description:
Variation in environmental conditions across a species' range can alter their responses to environmental change through local adaptation and acclimation. Evolutionary responses, however, may be challenged in ecosystems with tightly coupled environmental conditions, where changes in the covariance of environmental factors may make it more difficult for species to adapt to global change. Here, we conduct a 3-month-long mesocosm experiment and find evidence for local adaptation/acclimation in populations of red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, to multiple environmental drivers. Moreover, populations differ in their response to projected concurrent changes in pH, temperature, and dissolved oxygen. Our results highlight the potential for local adaptation/acclimation to multivariate environmental regimes but suggest that thresholds in responses to a single environmental variable, such as temperature, may be more important than changes to environmental covariance. Therefore, identifying physiological thresholds in key environmental drivers may be particularly useful for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Keywords:
Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard error; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard error; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (〈20 L); Buoyant mass; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcite saturation state; Calcite saturation state, standard error; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard error; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard error; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard error; Category; Coast and continental shelf; Comment; Data collection methodology; Date/time end, experiment; Date/time start, experiment; Echinodermata; Event label; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Gonad, dry mass; Grazing rate; Growth/Morphology; Hawthorne_Reef; Identification; Laboratory experiment; Mesocentrotus franciscanus; North Pacific; Noyo_Reef; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Oxygen; Oxygen, dissolved; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air), standard error; pH; pH, standard error; Point_Arena; Point_Vicente; Replicate; Salinity; Salinity, standard error; Single species; Site; Somatic tissue, mass; Species, unique identification; Temperate; Temperature; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Time of day; Treatment; Type; Type of study; Van_Damme_OA; Wet mass; White_Point
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 26672 data points
