Environmentally-induced parental or developmental conditioning influences coral offspring ecological performance.

ABSTRACT: The persistence of reef building corals is threatened by human-induced environmental change. Maintaining coral reefs into the future requires not only the survival of adults, but also the influx of recruits to promote genetic diversity and retain cover following adult mortality. Few studies examine the linkages among multiple life stages of corals, despite a growing knowledge of carryover effects in other systems. We provide a novel test of coral parental conditioning to ocean acidification (OA) and tracking of offspring for 6 months post-release to better understand parental or developmental priming impacts on the processes of offspring recruitment and growth. Coral planulation was tracked for 3 months following adult exposure to high pCO₂ and offspring from the second month we

SUBMITTER: Putnam HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature