TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes of energy fluxes in marine animal forests of the anthropocene
T2 - Factors shaping the future seascape
AU - Rossi, Sergio
AU - Isla, Enrique
AU - Bosch-Belmar, Mar
AU - Galli, Giovanni
AU - Gori, Andrea
AU - Gristina, Michele
AU - Ingrosso, Gianmarco
AU - Milisenda, Giacomo
AU - Piraino, Stefano
AU - Rizzo, Lucia
AU - Schubert, Nadine
AU - Soares, Marcelo
AU - Solidoro, Cosimo
AU - Thurstan, Ruth H.
AU - Viladrich, Núria
AU - Willis, Trevor J.
AU - Ziveri, Patrizia
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Climate change is already transforming the seascapes of our oceans by changing the energy availability and the metabolic rates of the organisms. Among the ecosystem-engineering species that structure the seascape, marine animal forests (MAFs) are the most widespread. These habitats, mainly composed of suspension feeding organisms, provide structural complexity to the sea floor, analogous to terrestrial forests. Because primary and secondary productivity is responding to different impacts, in particular to the rapid ongoing environmental changes driven by climate change, this paper presents some directions about what could happen to different MAFs depending on these fast changes. Climate change could modify the resistance or resilience of MAFs, potentially making them more sensitive to impacts from anthropic activities (i.e. fisheries and coastal management), and vice versa, direct impacts may amplify climate change constraints in MAFs. Such changes will have knock-on effects on the energy budgets of active and passive suspension feeding organisms, as well as on their phenology, larval nutritional condition, and population viability. How the future seascape will be shaped by the new energy fluxes is a crucial question that has to be urgently addressed to mitigate and adapt to the diverse impacts on natural systems.
AB - Climate change is already transforming the seascapes of our oceans by changing the energy availability and the metabolic rates of the organisms. Among the ecosystem-engineering species that structure the seascape, marine animal forests (MAFs) are the most widespread. These habitats, mainly composed of suspension feeding organisms, provide structural complexity to the sea floor, analogous to terrestrial forests. Because primary and secondary productivity is responding to different impacts, in particular to the rapid ongoing environmental changes driven by climate change, this paper presents some directions about what could happen to different MAFs depending on these fast changes. Climate change could modify the resistance or resilience of MAFs, potentially making them more sensitive to impacts from anthropic activities (i.e. fisheries and coastal management), and vice versa, direct impacts may amplify climate change constraints in MAFs. Such changes will have knock-on effects on the energy budgets of active and passive suspension feeding organisms, as well as on their phenology, larval nutritional condition, and population viability. How the future seascape will be shaped by the new energy fluxes is a crucial question that has to be urgently addressed to mitigate and adapt to the diverse impacts on natural systems.
KW - Benthic suspension feeders
KW - Benthic-pelagic coupling
KW - Climate change
KW - Energy fluxes
KW - Heterotrophy
KW - Ocean warming
KW - Primary productivity
KW - Secondary productivity
KW - Seston availability
KW - Water stratification
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/218934
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073243893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz147
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz147
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85073243893
VL - 76
SP - 2008
EP - 2019
JO - ICES Journal of Marine Science
JF - ICES Journal of Marine Science
SN - 1054-3139
IS - 7
ER -