Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals

Climate change is affecting reef-building corals worldwide, with little hope for recovery. However, coral fossils hint at the existence of environmental stress-triggered survival strategies unreported in extant colonial corals. We document the living evidence and long-term ecological role of such a...

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Autores: Kersting, Diego K., Linares Prats, Cristina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/158700
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Palabra clave:Canvi climàtic
Esculls coral·lins
Corals
Climatic change
Coral reefs and islands
Choral societies
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spelling Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted coralsKersting, Diego K.Linares Prats, CristinaCanvi climàticEsculls coral·linsCoralsClimatic changeCoral reefs and islandsChoral societiesClimate change is affecting reef-building corals worldwide, with little hope for recovery. However, coral fossils hint at the existence of environmental stress-triggered survival strategies unreported in extant colonial corals. We document the living evidence and long-term ecological role of such a survival strategy in which isolated polyps from coral colonies affected by warming adopt a transitory resistance phase, in turn expressing a high recovery capacity in dead colony areas. Such processes have been described in fossil corals as rejuvenescence but were previously unknown in extant reef-builder corals. Our results based on 16 years of monitoring show the significance of this process for unexpected recoveries of coral colonies severely affected by warming. These findings provide a link between rejuvenescence in fossil and extant corals and reveal that beyond adaptation and acclimatization processes, modern scleractinian corals show yet undiscovered and highly effective survival strategies that help them withstand and recover from rapid environmental changes.American Association for the Advancement of Science2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/158700Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax2950Science Advances, 2019, vol. 5, num. 10, p. eaax2950https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax2950info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/689518cc-by-nc (c) Kersting, Diego K. et al., 2019http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1587002026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
title Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
spellingShingle Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
Kersting, Diego K.
Canvi climàtic
Esculls coral·lins
Corals
Climatic change
Coral reefs and islands
Choral societies
title_short Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
title_full Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
title_fullStr Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
title_full_unstemmed Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
title_sort Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-impacted corals
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kersting, Diego K.
Linares Prats, Cristina
author Kersting, Diego K.
author_facet Kersting, Diego K.
Linares Prats, Cristina
author_role author
author2 Linares Prats, Cristina
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Canvi climàtic
Esculls coral·lins
Corals
Climatic change
Coral reefs and islands
Choral societies
topic Canvi climàtic
Esculls coral·lins
Corals
Climatic change
Coral reefs and islands
Choral societies
description Climate change is affecting reef-building corals worldwide, with little hope for recovery. However, coral fossils hint at the existence of environmental stress-triggered survival strategies unreported in extant colonial corals. We document the living evidence and long-term ecological role of such a survival strategy in which isolated polyps from coral colonies affected by warming adopt a transitory resistance phase, in turn expressing a high recovery capacity in dead colony areas. Such processes have been described in fossil corals as rejuvenescence but were previously unknown in extant reef-builder corals. Our results based on 16 years of monitoring show the significance of this process for unexpected recoveries of coral colonies severely affected by warming. These findings provide a link between rejuvenescence in fossil and extant corals and reveal that beyond adaptation and acclimatization processes, modern scleractinian corals show yet undiscovered and highly effective survival strategies that help them withstand and recover from rapid environmental changes.
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