期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 768, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143897
关键词
Sediment; Recruitment; Water quality; Survival threshold; Runoff; Dredging
资金
- AIMS@JCU
- Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP) TropicalWater Quality Hub project 5.2
Climate change poses new challenges to coral reef replenishment, with coral recruits under future climate conditions showing reduced ability to remove sediments and higher mortality rates. Water-quality guidelines will need to be adjusted according to climate change to protect future coral recruitment.
Coral reef replenishment is threatened by global climate change and local water-quality degradation, including smothering of coral recruits by sediments generated by anthropogenic activities. Here we show that the ability of Acropora millepora recruits to remove sediments diminishes under future climate conditions, leading to increased mortality. Recruits raised under future climate scenarios for fourteen weeks (highest treatment: +1.2 degrees C, pCO(2): 950 ppm) showed twofold higher mortality following repeated sediment deposition (50% lethal sediment concentration LC50: 14-24 mg cm(-2)) compared to recruits raised under current climate conditions (LC50: 37-51 mg cm(-2)), depending on recruit age at the time of sedimentation. Older and larger recruits were more resistant to sedimentation and only ten-week-old recruits grown under current climate conditions survived sediment loads possible during dredging operations. This demonstrates that water-quality guidelines for managing sediment concentrations will need to be climate-adjusted to protect future coral recruitment. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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