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Seagrasses Under Times Of Change - Editorial, Gidon Winters, Mirta Teichberg, Hauke Reuter, Inés G. Viana, Demian A. Willette
Seagrasses Under Times Of Change - Editorial, Gidon Winters, Mirta Teichberg, Hauke Reuter, Inés G. Viana, Demian A. Willette
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The Tropical Seagrass Halophila Stipulacea: Reviewing What We Know From Its Native And Invasive Habitats, Alongside Identifying Knowledge Gaps, Gidon Winters, Sven Beer, Demian A. Willette, Inés G. Viana, Kelcie L. Chiquillo, Pedro Beca-Carretero, Betty Villamayor, Tomás Azcárate-García, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Bridget Mwabvu, Luciana Migliore, Alice Rotini, Michelle A. Oscar, Jonathan Belmaker, Inbal Gamliel, Ana Alexandre, Aschwin H. Engelen, Gabriele Procaccini, Gil Rilov
The Tropical Seagrass Halophila Stipulacea: Reviewing What We Know From Its Native And Invasive Habitats, Alongside Identifying Knowledge Gaps, Gidon Winters, Sven Beer, Demian A. Willette, Inés G. Viana, Kelcie L. Chiquillo, Pedro Beca-Carretero, Betty Villamayor, Tomás Azcárate-García, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Bridget Mwabvu, Luciana Migliore, Alice Rotini, Michelle A. Oscar, Jonathan Belmaker, Inbal Gamliel, Ana Alexandre, Aschwin H. Engelen, Gabriele Procaccini, Gil Rilov
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Halophila stipulacea is a small tropical seagrass, native to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean. It invaded the Mediterranean Sea 150 years ago as a Lessepsian migrant, but so far has remained in insulated, small populations across this basin. Surprisingly, in 2002 it was reported in the Caribbean Sea, where within less than two decades it spread to most of the Caribbean Island nations and reaching the South American continent. Unlike its invasion of Mediterranean, in the Caribbean H. stipulacea creates large, continuous populations in many areas. Reports from the Caribbean demonstrated the invasiveness of H. stipulacea …
Incorporating Physiology Into Species Distribution Models Moderates The Projected Impact Of Warming On Mediterranean Marine Species, Inbal Gamliel, Yehezkel Buba, Tamar Guy-Haim, Tal Garval, Demian A. Willette, Gil Rilov, Jonathan Belmaker
Incorporating Physiology Into Species Distribution Models Moderates The Projected Impact Of Warming On Mediterranean Marine Species, Inbal Gamliel, Yehezkel Buba, Tamar Guy-Haim, Tal Garval, Demian A. Willette, Gil Rilov, Jonathan Belmaker
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Species distribution models (SDMs) correlate species occurrences with environmental predictors, and can be used to forecast distributions under future climates. SDMs have been criticized for not explicitly including the physiological processes underlying the species response to the environment. Recently, new methods have been suggested to combine SDMs with physiological estimates of performance (physiology-SDMs). In this study, we compare SDM and physiology-SDM predictions for select marine species in the Mediterranean Sea, a region subjected to exceptionally rapid climate change. We focused on six species and created physiology-SDMs that incorporate physiological thermal performance curves from experimental data with species occurrence records. We …
Biophysics, Environmental Stochasticity, And The Evolution Of Thermal Safety Margins In Intertidal Limpets, W. Wesley Dowd, M. W. Denny
Biophysics, Environmental Stochasticity, And The Evolution Of Thermal Safety Margins In Intertidal Limpets, W. Wesley Dowd, M. W. Denny
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As the air temperature of the Earth rises, ecological relationships within a community might shift, in part due to differences in the thermal physiology of species. Prediction of these shifts – an urgent task for ecologists – will be complicated if thermal tolerance itself can rapidly evolve. Here, we employ a mechanistic approach to predict the potential for rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the intertidal limpet Lottia gigantea. Using biophysical principles to predict body temperature as a function of the state of the environment, and an environmental bootstrap procedure to predict how the environment fluctuates through time, we create …