{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Luo Y"],"funding":["Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province","National Natural Science Foundation of China","National Key Research and Development Program of China"],"pagination":["e70278"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11420107"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Coastal darkening is emerging as a global threat to fringing reefs. While some reef-building corals exhibit resistance to low-light environments, the mechanisms behind this resistance, particularly the role of coral hosts, remain inadequately understood. Here, we investigated variations in underwater photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and employed the Bayesian stable isotope mixing model (MixSIAR) to estimate the contributions of autotrophic (i.e., dissolved inorganic matter, DIM) and heterotrophic sources (i.e., particulate organic matter, POM, and dissolved organic matter, DOM) to the nutrition of the reef coral <i>Galaxea fascicularis</i> on the Luhuitou turbid reef in the northern South China Sea. Our findings revealed that the heterotrophic contribution to coral nutrition incre"],"journal":["Ecology and evolution"],"pubmed_title":["The role of heterotrophic plasticity in coral response to natural low-light environments."],"pmcid":["PMC11420107"],"funding_grant_id":["2021YFC3100500","41976120","2023B1212060047"],"pubmed_authors":["Jiang L","Huang H","Gan J","Huang L","Liu S","Sun Y","Lian J","Lei X","Zhang Y","Luo Y","Cheng M","Zhou G","Liu C","Yu X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The role of heterotrophic plasticity in coral response to natural low-light environments.","description":"Coastal darkening is emerging as a global threat to fringing reefs. While some reef-building corals exhibit resistance to low-light environments, the mechanisms behind this resistance, particularly the role of coral hosts, remain inadequately understood. Here, we investigated variations in underwater photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and employed the Bayesian stable isotope mixing model (MixSIAR) to estimate the contributions of autotrophic (i.e., dissolved inorganic matter, DIM) and heterotrophic sources (i.e., particulate organic matter, POM, and dissolved organic matter, DOM) to the nutrition of the reef coral <i>Galaxea fascicularis</i> on the Luhuitou turbid reef in the northern South China Sea. Our findings revealed that the heterotrophic contribution to coral nutrition incre","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Sep","modification":"2026-06-06T02:12:11.532Z","creation":"2025-04-04T02:36:00.768Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11420107","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39318528"],"doi":["10.1002/ece3.70278"]}}