Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15234
Title: Losing a winner: thermal stress and local pressures outweigh the positive effects of ocean acidification for tropical seagrasses
Authors: Collier, Catherine J
Langlois, Lucas
Ow, Yan 
Johansson, Charlotte
Giammusso, Manuela
Adams, Matthew P 
O'Brien, Katherine R
Uthicke, Sven
Keywords: Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Plant Sciences
climate change
Cymodocea serrulata
Great Barrier Reef
Halodule uninervis
interactive effects
ocean acidification
ocean warming
Zostera muelleri
SITU CO2 ENRICHMENT
EELGRASS ZOSTERA-MARINA
CLIMATE-CHANGE
INCREASED TEMPERATURE
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
GROWTH
RESPIRATION
PRODUCTIVITY
SENSITIVITY
TOLERANCE
Issue Date: 1-Aug-2018
Publisher: WILEY
Citation: Collier, Catherine J, Langlois, Lucas, Ow, Yan, Johansson, Charlotte, Giammusso, Manuela, Adams, Matthew P, O'Brien, Katherine R, Uthicke, Sven (2018-08-01). Losing a winner: thermal stress and local pressures outweigh the positive effects of ocean acidification for tropical seagrasses. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 219 (3) : 1005-1017. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15234
Abstract: Seagrasses are globally important coastal habitat-forming species, yet it is unknown how seagrasses respond to the combined pressures of ocean acidification and warming of sea surface temperature. We exposed three tropical species of seagrass (Cymodocea serrulata, Halodule uninervis, and Zostera muelleri) to increasing temperature (21, 25, 30, and 35°C) and pCO2 (401, 1014, and 1949 μatm) for 7 wk in mesocosms using a controlled factorial design. Shoot density and leaf extension rates were recorded, and plant productivity and respiration were measured at increasing light levels (photosynthesis–irradiance curves) using oxygen optodes. Shoot density, growth, photosynthetic rates, and plant-scale net productivity occurred at 25°C or 30°C under saturating light levels. High pCO2 enhanced maximum net productivity for Z. muelleri, but not in other species. Z. muelleri was the most thermally tolerant as it maintained positive net production to 35°C, yet for the other species there was a sharp decline in productivity, growth, and shoot density at 35°C, which was exacerbated by pCO2. These results suggest that thermal stress will not be offset by ocean acidification during future extreme heat events and challenges the current hypothesis that tropical seagrass will be a ‘winner’ under future climate change conditions.
Source Title: NEW PHYTOLOGIST
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229252
ISSN: 0028646X
14698137
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15234
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