Metabolic plasticity improves lobster's resilience to ocean warming but not to climate-driven novel species interactions.

ABSTRACT: Marine species not only suffer from direct effects of warming oceans but also indirectly via the emergence of novel species interactions. While metabolic adjustments can be crucial to improve resilience to warming, it is largely unknown if this improves performance relative to novel competitors. We aimed to identify if spiny lobsters-inhabiting a global warming and species re-distribution hotspot-align their metabolic performance to improve resilience to both warming and novel species interactions. We measured metabolic and escape capacity of two Australian spiny lobsters, resident Jasus edwardsii and the range-shifting Sagmariasus verreauxi, acclimated to current average-(14.0 °C), current summer-(17.5 °C) and projected future summer-(21.5 °C) habitat temperatures. We found that both spec

SUBMITTER: Oellermann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature