Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation
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Temperature controls the rate of fundamental biochemical processes and thereby regulates organismal attributes including development rate and survival. The increase in metabolic rate with temperature explains substantial among-species variation in life-history traits, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes. Temperature can also cause variability in metabolic rate within species. Here, we compare the effect of temperature on a key component of marine life cycles among a geographically and taxonomically diverse group of marine fish and invertebrates. Although innumerable lab studies document the negative effect of temperature on larval development time, little is known about the generality versus taxon-dependence of this relationship. We present a unified, parameterized model for the temperature dependence of larval development in marine animals. Because the duration of the larval period is known to influence larval dispersal distance and survival, changes in ocean temperature could have a direct and predictable influence on population connectivity, community structure, and regional-to-global scale patterns of biodiversity.
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Water temperature directly affects traits such as pelagic larval duration through its regulation of developmental processes and changes the strength and direction of selective mortality.
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- Authors
- O'Connor, M. I., Bruno, J. F., Gaines, S. D., Halpern, B. S., Lester, S. E., Kinlan, B. P., & Weiss, J. M.
- Affiliations
- *Curriculum in Ecology, CB 3275, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599;
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2007-01-23
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1266-1271
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC1764863
- OpenAlex
- W2157367008
- Cited by
- 924
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 29.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0327191, 0326983)
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Hertz Foundation
- Nature Conservancy
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine and fisheries research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Keywords
- temperature dependence, larval development time, larval dispersal, larval survival, metabolic rate, life-history traits, marine fish, marine invertebrates, population connectivity, biodiversity patterns, ocean warming, parameterized models
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecology, Biological Evolution, Larva, Marine Biology, Temperature
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