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Article: Eutrophication offsets increased sea urchin grazing on seagrass aused by ocean warming and acidification
Title | Eutrophication offsets increased sea urchin grazing on seagrass aused by ocean warming and acidification |
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Keywords | Amblypneustes pallidus Temperature Carbon dioxide Climate change Consumption Herbivory Nutrient enrichment Amphibolis antarctica |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Citation | Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2013, v. 485, p. 37-46 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The accumulation of atmospheric [CO2] continues to warm and acidify oceans concomitant with local disturbances, such as eutrophication. These changes can modify plant- herbivore grazing interactions by affecting the physiology of grazers and by altering the nutritional value of plants. However, such environmental changes are often studied in isolation, providing little understanding of their combined effects. We tested how ocean warming and acidification affect the per capita grazing by the sea urchin Amblypneustes pallidus on the seagrass Amphibolis antarctica and how such effects may differ between ambient and eutrophic nutrient conditions. Consistent with metabolic theory, grazing increased with warming, but in contrast to our expectations, acidification also increased grazing. While nutrient enrichment reduced grazing, it did not fully counterbalance the increase associated with warming and acidification. Collectively, these results suggest that ocean warming and acidification may combine to strengthen topdown pressure by herbivores. Localised nutrient enrichment could ameliorate some of the increased per capita grazing effect caused by warming and acidification, provided other common negative effects of eutrophication on seagrass, including overgrowth by epiphytes and herbivore aggregation, are not overwhelming. There is value in assessing how global and local environmental change will combine, often in non-intuitive ways, to modify biological interactions that shape habitats © 2013 Inter-Research. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/213318 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.802 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Burnell, Owen W. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Russell, Bayden D. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Irving, Andrew D. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Connell, Sean D. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-28T04:06:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-28T04:06:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2013, v. 485, p. 37-46 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0171-8630 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/213318 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The accumulation of atmospheric [CO2] continues to warm and acidify oceans concomitant with local disturbances, such as eutrophication. These changes can modify plant- herbivore grazing interactions by affecting the physiology of grazers and by altering the nutritional value of plants. However, such environmental changes are often studied in isolation, providing little understanding of their combined effects. We tested how ocean warming and acidification affect the per capita grazing by the sea urchin Amblypneustes pallidus on the seagrass Amphibolis antarctica and how such effects may differ between ambient and eutrophic nutrient conditions. Consistent with metabolic theory, grazing increased with warming, but in contrast to our expectations, acidification also increased grazing. While nutrient enrichment reduced grazing, it did not fully counterbalance the increase associated with warming and acidification. Collectively, these results suggest that ocean warming and acidification may combine to strengthen topdown pressure by herbivores. Localised nutrient enrichment could ameliorate some of the increased per capita grazing effect caused by warming and acidification, provided other common negative effects of eutrophication on seagrass, including overgrowth by epiphytes and herbivore aggregation, are not overwhelming. There is value in assessing how global and local environmental change will combine, often in non-intuitive ways, to modify biological interactions that shape habitats © 2013 Inter-Research. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Marine Ecology Progress Series | - |
dc.subject | Amblypneustes pallidus | - |
dc.subject | Temperature | - |
dc.subject | Carbon dioxide | - |
dc.subject | Climate change | - |
dc.subject | Consumption | - |
dc.subject | Herbivory | - |
dc.subject | Nutrient enrichment | - |
dc.subject | Amphibolis antarctica | - |
dc.title | Eutrophication offsets increased sea urchin grazing on seagrass aused by ocean warming and acidification | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3354/meps10323 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84879642387 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 485 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 46 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000321008200004 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0171-8630 | - |