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Main Authors: Ianniello, Caroline F, Beery, Grace, Chen, Ta-Hung Denny, Deyle, Ethan, Heiger-Bernays, Wendy, Motter, Itasca, McAlister, Justin S, Rotjan, Randi D
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Marine pollution bulletin 2025
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Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40215950/
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author Ianniello, Caroline F
Beery, Grace
Chen, Ta-Hung Denny
Deyle, Ethan
Heiger-Bernays, Wendy
Motter, Itasca
McAlister, Justin S
Rotjan, Randi D
author_facet Ianniello, Caroline F
Beery, Grace
Chen, Ta-Hung Denny
Deyle, Ethan
Heiger-Bernays, Wendy
Motter, Itasca
McAlister, Justin S
Rotjan, Randi D
Ianniello, Caroline F
Beery, Grace
Chen, Ta-Hung Denny
Deyle, Ethan
Heiger-Bernays, Wendy
Motter, Itasca
McAlister, Justin S
Rotjan, Randi D
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Stress in the City: Disentangling multi-stressor effects on an urbanized coral in a changing ocean. Ianniello, Caroline F Beery, Grace Chen, Ta-Hung Denny Deyle, Ethan Heiger-Bernays, Wendy Motter, Itasca McAlister, Justin S Rotjan, Randi D Animals Anthozoa Climate Change Urbanization Stress, Physiological Escherichia coli Cities Temperature Nitrates Oceans and Seas Ecosystem Reducing the negative impacts of global change on organismal physiology is a critical area of scientific investigation in the Anthropocene. Marine coastal ecosystems that exist downstream from urban centers are often subjected to excess nutrients, pathogens, and chemicals via runoff, which can harm organismal function, and may interact with climate change stress. To simultaneously investigate the individual and combined effects of locally-mediated (nutrient, bacterial) and globally-mediated (temperature) stressors on coral physiology, we conducted a multi-factor experiment utilizing the temperate, urban coral Astrangia poculata. Corals were incubated for 12 days with two levels of field-relevant nitrate concentrations at ambient (20 °C) and elevated (29 °C) temperatures, under fed or starved conditions. After 12 days, corals were challenged with an acute 4-h exposure to Escherichia coli, a known urban pathogen for A. poculata. Results show that the physiological impacts of E. coli exposure, nitrate, elevated temperatures, and starvation were interactive and nuanced. Elevated temperatures had the largest single factor impact, resulting in metabolic lethargy regardless of pathogen exposure, nitrate enrichment, or food level. However, corals under the combination of E. coli exposure, elevated nitrate, starvation, and high temperatures demonstrated metabolic hyperactivity, indicating energetic investment by hyper stressed corals in response to the pathogen. With this work, we move beyond pairwise interactions to demonstrate that the interactive effects of combined stressors may offer the key (and more realistic) answer to the fundamental question "How resilient will marine organisms be to locally-mediated stressors in an era of global change?"
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spellingShingle Stress in the City: Disentangling multi-stressor effects on an urbanized coral in a changing ocean.
Ianniello, Caroline F
Beery, Grace
Chen, Ta-Hung Denny
Deyle, Ethan
Heiger-Bernays, Wendy
Motter, Itasca
McAlister, Justin S
Rotjan, Randi D
Animals
Anthozoa
Climate Change
Urbanization
Stress, Physiological
Escherichia coli
Cities
Temperature
Nitrates
Oceans and Seas
Ecosystem
Stress in the City: Disentangling multi-stressor effects on an urbanized coral in a changing ocean. Ianniello, Caroline F Beery, Grace Chen, Ta-Hung Denny Deyle, Ethan Heiger-Bernays, Wendy Motter, Itasca McAlister, Justin S Rotjan, Randi D Animals Anthozoa Climate Change Urbanization Stress, Physiological Escherichia coli Cities Temperature Nitrates Oceans and Seas Ecosystem Reducing the negative impacts of global change on organismal physiology is a critical area of scientific investigation in the Anthropocene. Marine coastal ecosystems that exist downstream from urban centers are often subjected to excess nutrients, pathogens, and chemicals via runoff, which can harm organismal function, and may interact with climate change stress. To simultaneously investigate the individual and combined effects of locally-mediated (nutrient, bacterial) and globally-mediated (temperature) stressors on coral physiology, we conducted a multi-factor experiment utilizing the temperate, urban coral Astrangia poculata. Corals were incubated for 12 days with two levels of field-relevant nitrate concentrations at ambient (20 °C) and elevated (29 °C) temperatures, under fed or starved conditions. After 12 days, corals were challenged with an acute 4-h exposure to Escherichia coli, a known urban pathogen for A. poculata. Results show that the physiological impacts of E. coli exposure, nitrate, elevated temperatures, and starvation were interactive and nuanced. Elevated temperatures had the largest single factor impact, resulting in metabolic lethargy regardless of pathogen exposure, nitrate enrichment, or food level. However, corals under the combination of E. coli exposure, elevated nitrate, starvation, and high temperatures demonstrated metabolic hyperactivity, indicating energetic investment by hyper stressed corals in response to the pathogen. With this work, we move beyond pairwise interactions to demonstrate that the interactive effects of combined stressors may offer the key (and more realistic) answer to the fundamental question "How resilient will marine organisms be to locally-mediated stressors in an era of global change?"
title Stress in the City: Disentangling multi-stressor effects on an urbanized coral in a changing ocean.
topic Animals
Anthozoa
Climate Change
Urbanization
Stress, Physiological
Escherichia coli
Cities
Temperature
Nitrates
Oceans and Seas
Ecosystem
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40215950/