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- Title
Continuous warming drives the colonization dynamics of periphytic ciliate fauna in marine environments.
- Authors
Song, Suihan; Sun, Zhiyi; Xu, Guangjian; Xu, Henglong
- Abstract
In order to evaluate the influence of global warming on the ecosystem processes in marine environments, the changes in colonization dynamics of periphytic microbiota were studied using the periphytic ciliate communities as the test organism fauna under a continuous warming gradient of 22℃ (control), 25℃, 28℃, 31℃, and 34 ℃. The results demonstrated that (1) the test ciliate communities generally showed a similar temporal pattern in within the colonization process under the water temperatures from 22 up to 28℃; however, (2) the colonization dynamics were significantly changed, and the fitness of colonization curves to the MacArthur–Wilson model equation was failed under the temperature increased by 6 ℃, and (3) the loading or assimilative capacity of the test aquatic ecosystem was decreased with the increase of water temperature. Therefore, this study suggests that continuous warming may significantly drive the colonization dynamics of periphytic ciliates in marine ecosystems.
- Subjects
COLONIZATION (Ecology); MARINE animals; MARINE ecology; WATER temperature; GLOBAL warming; ECOSYSTEMS
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 25, p37326
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-024-33700-4