期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 23, 期 9, 页码 3838-3848出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13695
关键词
coral reefs; diazotroph; microbial activity; nitrogen cycling; Pocillopora; Symbiodinium; symbiosis
资金
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- German Research Foundation [Wi 2677/9-1]
The disruption of the coral-algae symbiosis (coral bleaching) due to rising sea surface temperatures has become an unprecedented global threat to coral reefs. Despite decades of research, our ability to manage mass bleaching events remains hampered by an incomplete mechanistic understanding of the processes involved. In this study, we induced a coral bleaching phenotype in the absence of heat and light stress by adding sugars. The sugar addition resulted in coral symbiotic breakdown accompanied by a fourfold increase of coral-associated microbial nitrogen fixation. Concomitantly, increased N:P ratios by the coral host and algal symbionts suggest excess availability of nitrogen and a disruption of the nitrogen limitation within the coral holobiont. As nitrogen fixation is similarly stimulated in ocean warming scenarios, here we propose a refined coral bleaching model integrating the cascading effects of stimulated microbial nitrogen fixation. This model highlights the putative role of nitrogen-fixing microbes in coral holobiont functioning and breakdown.
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