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FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
卷 35, 期 3, 页码 686-695出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13768
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climate change; heat tolerance; intertidal bivalve; physiological plasticity; seasonal temperature variation
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资金
- Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M642568]
- National Key Research and Development Project of China [2019YFD0900402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31901094, 42025604]
The study found that razor clams have a stronger heat hardening response in warm seasons, indicating that heat hardening works synchronously with seasonal acclimatization to increase the clams' resistance to high temperatures. Heat hardening increased heat tolerance by 2-4 degrees C and showed a 24-hr temporal dependence in warm seasons, suggesting adaptation to the diel fluctuation of thermal regimes in summer.
1. Animal survival and species distribution in the face of global warming and increasing occurrences of heatwave largely depend on how heat tolerance shifts with plastic responses at different spatiotemporal scales, including long-term acclimation/acclimatization and short-term heat hardening. However, knowledge about the interaction of these plastic responses is still unclear. 2. To understand how plastic responses at different time-scales work together to adjust heat tolerance of organisms, we examined the effect of heat hardening on the upper thermal limits of an intertidal mudflat bivalve, the razor clam Sinonovacula constricta, for different seasons using heart rate as a proxy. 3. We observed a stronger heat hardening response of S. constricta in warm seasons, implying that heat hardening worked synchronously with seasonal acclimatization to increase resistance of the clams to high temperatures in warm seasons. In warm seasons, heat hardening increased heat tolerance by 2-4 degrees C and showed a 24-hr temporal dependence, suggesting an adaptation to the diel fluctuation of thermal regimes in summer. 4. Furthermore, thermal stress resembling seasonal maximum environmental temperature induced stronger heat hardening effects, indicating that heat hardening is an essential plastic response to extreme hot weather, complementing seasonal acclimatization. 5. Our results suggest that high temperature risk can be alleviated jointly by seasonal acclimatization and heat hardening, and emphasize the importance of considering physiological plasticity on both long-term and short-term temporal scales in evaluating and forecasting vulnerability of organisms to climate change.
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