期刊
CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coab010
关键词
Development; habitat complexity; larvae; mangroves; respirometry; vulnerability
资金
- National Research Foundation [104911]
- Rufford Foundation [24522-1]
The study found that the conditions within microhabitats likely influence the physiology of larvae, with mangrove crab larvae in early stages being increasingly vulnerable to acute temperature exposures. Furthermore, the larval thermal optimum shifted ontogenetically to become increasingly eurythermic as individuals developed.
Most marine ectotherms require the successful completion of a biphasic larval stage to recruit into adult populations. Recruitment of larvae into benthic habitats largely depends on biological interactions and favourable environmental conditions such as the inescapable diurnal thermal and tidal exposures. Hence, assessing how different taxa metabolically respond to variations in temperature is imperative to understand the community and ecosystem dynamics at both local and global scales. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of acute temperature variation on the physiology of stage-specific brachyuran larvae collected from different microhabitats at two mangrove forests in South Africa. Results indicate that the conditions within microhabitats, which larvae experience, likely influence their physiology, based on respirometry, to short-term acute temperature exposures. Furthermore, the larval thermal optimum shifted ontogenetically to become increasingly eurythermic as individuals developed from stage I zoea through to megalopa. Mangrove crab larvae in their early stages are hence increasingly vulnerable to acute temperature exposures, which could be particularly harmful to the persistence of populations if thermally stressful events increase in magnitude and frequency.
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