The physiological response of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis to elevated temperature: results from coral reef mesocosm experiments in Southern Taiwan

• Published in: Marine environmental research Vol. 86; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Mayfield, Anderson B., Chen, Meng-Ni, Meng, Pei-Jie, Lin, Hsing-Juh, Chen, Chii-Shiarng, Liu, Pi-Jen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acclimation; Acclimatization; Acclimatization - physiology; analysis; Analysis of Variance; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Anthozoa; Anthozoa - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; climate change; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Coral Reefs; corals; Earth, ocean, space; Endosymbiosis; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Fluorometry; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Global change; Invertebrate physiology; Mesocosm; Meteorology; Molecular biology; Mortality; mRNA; Pacific Ocean; physiological response; physiology; Protozoa; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sea water ecosystems; Seawater; Seawater - analysis; Symbiodinium; Synecology; Taiwan; Temperature; Time Factors; Pacific Ocean; Taiwan; Asia; Far east; Coral reefs; Invertebrate physiology; Mesocosm; Temperature; Endosymbiosis; Global change; mRNA; Molecular biology; Symbiodinium; Acclimation; Modification; Environmental factor; Pocillopora damicornis; Marine environment; Coelenterata; Messenger RNA; Cnidaria; Planetary scale; Physiology; Adaptation; Protozoa; Subtropical zone; Coral reef; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; Invertebrata

Given the threat of climate change towards scleractinian corals, there is an urgent need to understand their physiological mechanisms of acclimation to increasing temperatures. To gain insight into this process, two mesocosm-based experiments were conducted in Southern Taiwan with the model reef-bui...