Biodiversity in marine invertebrate responses to acute warming revealed by a comparative multi-omics approach.

ABSTRACT: Understanding species' responses to environmental change underpins our abilities to make predictions on future biodiversity under any range of scenarios. In spite of the huge biodiversity in most ecosystems, a model species approach is often taken in environmental studies. To date, we still do not know how many species we need to study to input into models and inform on ecosystem-level responses to change. In this study, we tested current paradigms on factors setting thermal limits by investigating the acute warming response of six Antarctic marine invertebrates: a crustacean Paraceradocus miersi, a brachiopod Liothyrella uva, two bivalve molluscs, Laternula elliptica, Aequiyoldia eightsii, a gastropod mollusc Marseniopsis mollis and an echinoderm Cucumaria georgiana. Each species was warm

SUBMITTER: Clark MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849730 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature