Context-dependent carryover effects of hypoxia and warming in a coastal ecosystem engineer.

ABSTRACT: Organisms are increasingly likely to be exposed to multiple stressors repeatedly across ontogeny as climate change and other anthropogenic stressors intensify. Early life stages can be particularly sensitive to environmental stress, such that experiences early in life can "carry over" to have long-term effects on organism fitness. Despite the potential importance of these within-generation carryover effects, we have little understanding of how they vary across ecological contexts, particularly when organisms are re-exposed to the same stressors later in life. In coastal marine systems, anthropogenic nutrients and warming water temperatures are reducing average dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations while also increasing the severity of naturally occurring daily fluctuations in DO. Combined e

SUBMITTER: Donelan SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243920 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature