Journal
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 5, Pages 494-507Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/682238
Keywords
Homarus gammarus; ocean warming; ocean acidification; life history; larval development; seafood
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- Plymouth University
- National Marine Aquarium
- Research Council of the United Kingdom (RCUK)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/H017127/1]
- NERC [NE/H017127/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H017127/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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An organism's physiological processes form the link between its life-history traits and the prevailing environmental conditions, especially in species with complex life cycles. Understanding how these processes respond to changing environmental conditions, thereby affecting organismal development, is critical if we are to predict the biological implications of current and future global climate change. However, much of our knowledge is derived from adults or single developmental stages. Consequently, we investigated the metabolic rate, organic content, carapace mineralization, growth, and survival across each larval stage of the European lobster Homarus gammarus, reared under current and predicted future ocean warming and acidification scenarios. Larvae exhibited stage-specific changes in the temperature sensitivity of their metabolic rate. Elevated Pco(2) increased C:N ratios and interacted with elevated temperature to affect carapace mineralization. These changes were linked to concomitant changes in survivorship and growth, from which it was concluded that bottlenecks were evident during H. gammarus larval development in stages I and IV, the transition phases between the embryonic and pelagic larval stages and between the larval and megalopa stages, respectively. We therefore suggest that natural changes in optimum temperature during ontogeny will be key to larvae survival in a future warmer ocean. The interactions of these natural changes with elevated temperature and Pco(2) significantly alter physiological condition and body size of the last larval stage before the transition from a planktonic to a benthic life style. Thus, living and growing in warm, hypercapnic waters could compromise larval lobster growth, development, and recruitment.
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