Data from Shifts in survival and reproduction after chronic warming enhance the potential of a marine copepod to persist under extreme heat events [Dataset]

The study of a species' thermal tolerance and vital rate responses provides useful metrics to characterize its vulnerability to ocean warming. Under prolonged thermal stress, plastic and adaptive processes can adjust the physiology of organisms. Yet it is uncertain whether the species can expan...

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Autores: de Juan Carbonell, Carlos, Calbet, Albert, Saiz, Enric
Tipo de recurso: conjunto de datos
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/332956
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/332956
https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/15494
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Copepods
Temperature
Heatwave
Tolerance
Survival
Performance
Reproduction
Thermal limits
Paracartia grani
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Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
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Sumario:The study of a species' thermal tolerance and vital rate responses provides useful metrics to characterize its vulnerability to ocean warming. Under prolonged thermal stress, plastic and adaptive processes can adjust the physiology of organisms. Yet it is uncertain whether the species can expand their upper thermal limits to cope with rapid and extreme changes in environmental temperature. In this study, we reared the marine copepod Paracartia grani at control (19°C) and warmer conditions (25°C) for >18 generations and assessed their survival and fecundity under short-term exposure to a range of temperatures (11-34°C). After multigenerational warming, the upper tolerance to acute exposure (24 hours) increased by 1-1.3°C, although this enhancement decreased to 0.3-0.8°C after longer thermal stress (7 days). Warm-reared copepods were smaller and produced significantly fewer offspring at the optimum temperature. No shift in the thermal breadth of the reproductive response was observed. Yet the fecundity rates of the warm-reared copepods in the upper thermal range were up to 21-fold higher than the control. Our results show that chronic warming improved tolerance to stress temperatures and fecundity of P. grani, therefore enhancing its chances to persist under extreme heat events