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MARINE BIOLOGY
卷 161, 期 1, 页码 131-139出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2322-5
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- Programa para el Mejoramiento del Profesorado [F/47578-0]
- project Evaluacion y monitoreo del efecto del Cambio Climatico sobre las comunidades coralinas del Pacifico Central Mexicano [P/PIFI-2010-14MSU0010Z-10]
- IIO-UABC [533]
- National Science Foundation [EF 1040940]
Coral bleaching events are associated with abnormal increases in temperature, such as those produced during El Nio. Recently, a breakdown in the coral-dinoflagellate (genus Symbiodinium) endosymbiosis has been documented in corals exposed to anomalously cold-water temperatures associated with La Nia events. Given the ecological significance of such events, as well as the threat of global climate change, surprisingly little is known about the physiological response of corals to cold stress. This study evaluated some physiological effects of continuous temperature decline in colonies of the eastern Pacific reef-building coral Pocillopora verrucosa. Twenty days of incubation at 18.5-19.0 A degrees C resulted in a substantial decrease in holobiont lipid and Chla content, as well as an increase in Symbiodinium density. These observations suggest a combination of symbiont acclimation due to the temperature decline and reallocation of carbon toward algal growth as opposed to translocation to the host coral. With a decreased availability of symbiont-derived carbon, the coral likely catabolized storage lipids in order to survive the stress event. Despite this stress and some tissue necrosis, no mortality was noted and corals recovered quickly when returned to the ambient temperature. As these results are in marked contrast to similar studies investigating elevated temperature on this coral from this same location, Pocillopora in the Mexican Central Pacific may be more prone to long-term damage and mortality during periods of ocean warming as opposed to ocean cooling.
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