Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 701-711Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.04.067
Keywords
Ocean acidification; Climate change; Nutrients; Coral holobiont; Stylophora pistillata; Gulf of Aqaba
Funding
- Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee and Dart Foundation
- Mote Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- National Science Foundation [IOS 0747205]
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Environmental stressors are adversely affecting coral reef ecosystems. There is ample evidence that scleractinian coral growth and physiology may be compromised by reduced pH, and elevated temperature, and that this is exacerbated by local environmental stressors. The Gulf of Aqaba is considered a coral reef refuge from acidification and warming but coastal development and nutrient effluent may pose a local threat. This study examined the effects of select forecasted environmental changes (acidification, warming, and increased nutrients) individually and in combination on the coral holobiont Stylophora pistillata from the Gulf of Aqaba to understand how corals in a potential global climate change refugia may fare in the face of local eutrophication. The results indicate interactions between all stressors, with elevated nutrient concentrations having the broadest individual and additive impacts upon the performance of S. pistillata. These findings highlight the importance of maintaining oligotrophic conditions to secure these reefs as potential refugia.
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