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Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change

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posted on 2023-05-20, 00:15 authored by Donelson, JM, Sunday, JM, Figueira, WF, Gaitan-Espitia, JD, Hobday, AJ, Craig JohnsonCraig Johnson, Jeffrey LeisJeffrey Leis, Scott LingScott Ling, Marshall, D, Pandolfi, JM, Gretta PeclGretta Pecl, Rodgers, GG, Booth, DJ, Munday, PL
Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing to a lack of natural and empirical data on the influence of phenotypic adaptation on range shifts of marine species, we provide a general conceptual model for understanding population responses to climate change that incorporates plasticity and adaptation to environmental change in marine ecosystems. We use this conceptual model to help inform where within the geographical range each mechanism will probably operate most strongly and explore the supporting evidence in species. We then expand the discussion from a single-species perspective to community-level responses and use the conceptual model to visualize and guide research into the important yet poorly understood processes of plasticity and adaptation.

History

Publication title

Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions. Biological Sciences

Volume

374

Issue

1768

Article number

20180186

Number

20180186

Pagination

1-14

ISSN

0962-8436

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Royal Soc London

Place of publication

6 Carlton House Terrace, London, England, Sw1Y 5Ag

Rights statement

Copyright 2019 The Authors

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Ecosystem adaptation to climate change