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Main Authors: Alvarez, Philippa R, Harris, Rosalie J, Cook, Alicia M, Briceño, Verónica F, Nicotra, Adrienne B, Leigh, Andrea
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Oecologia 2025
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Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40372513/
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author Alvarez, Philippa R
Harris, Rosalie J
Cook, Alicia M
Briceño, Verónica F
Nicotra, Adrienne B
Leigh, Andrea
author_facet Alvarez, Philippa R
Harris, Rosalie J
Cook, Alicia M
Briceño, Verónica F
Nicotra, Adrienne B
Leigh, Andrea
Alvarez, Philippa R
Harris, Rosalie J
Cook, Alicia M
Briceño, Verónica F
Nicotra, Adrienne B
Leigh, Andrea
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Native Australian seedlings exhibit novel strategies to acclimate to repeated heatwave events. Alvarez, Philippa R Harris, Rosalie J Cook, Alicia M Briceño, Verónica F Nicotra, Adrienne B Leigh, Andrea Acclimatization Seedlings Hot Temperature Australia Heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent. Plant photosystem thermal thresholds can vary with species, but also shift in response to environmental triggers. Both upper and lower thresholds can acclimate to repeated heatwaves through ecological stress memory, where prior exposure primes them for subsequent events. The extent to which acclimation to repeated heat stress events varies among environmental origin and/or species is unknown. Different acclimation strategies might reflect biome of origin, or may be species-specific. For 12 species from two contrasting biomes-extreme desert and benign coastal temperate-we investigated responses to two simulated heatwaves, via shifts in upper and lower critical temperatures of photosystem II, and the difference between these thresholds, thermal tolerance breadth (TTB). Biome of origin had no effect on thermal tolerance. Observed differences among species following heat events suggested two possible acclimatory strategies. In some cases, species increased thermal thresholds during the first heatwave, but at the cost of reduced thermal tolerance during the second heatwave, a sprinter strategy. Other species acclimated to the first heatwave and further increased thermal tolerance to a second heatwave, indicative of ecological stress memory, a marathoner strategy. Synthesis: these among-species responses to heatwaves could suggest distinct vulnerabilities and resilience to repeat heat stress events, with some species having limited capacity to tolerate consecutive heatwaves, possibly as the cost of acclimation is too great, with other species having the advantage of increased tolerance via stress memory, helping them survive future stress, at least in the short-term.
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spellingShingle Native Australian seedlings exhibit novel strategies to acclimate to repeated heatwave events.
Alvarez, Philippa R
Harris, Rosalie J
Cook, Alicia M
Briceño, Verónica F
Nicotra, Adrienne B
Leigh, Andrea
Acclimatization
Seedlings
Hot Temperature
Australia
Native Australian seedlings exhibit novel strategies to acclimate to repeated heatwave events. Alvarez, Philippa R Harris, Rosalie J Cook, Alicia M Briceño, Verónica F Nicotra, Adrienne B Leigh, Andrea Acclimatization Seedlings Hot Temperature Australia Heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent. Plant photosystem thermal thresholds can vary with species, but also shift in response to environmental triggers. Both upper and lower thresholds can acclimate to repeated heatwaves through ecological stress memory, where prior exposure primes them for subsequent events. The extent to which acclimation to repeated heat stress events varies among environmental origin and/or species is unknown. Different acclimation strategies might reflect biome of origin, or may be species-specific. For 12 species from two contrasting biomes-extreme desert and benign coastal temperate-we investigated responses to two simulated heatwaves, via shifts in upper and lower critical temperatures of photosystem II, and the difference between these thresholds, thermal tolerance breadth (TTB). Biome of origin had no effect on thermal tolerance. Observed differences among species following heat events suggested two possible acclimatory strategies. In some cases, species increased thermal thresholds during the first heatwave, but at the cost of reduced thermal tolerance during the second heatwave, a sprinter strategy. Other species acclimated to the first heatwave and further increased thermal tolerance to a second heatwave, indicative of ecological stress memory, a marathoner strategy. Synthesis: these among-species responses to heatwaves could suggest distinct vulnerabilities and resilience to repeat heat stress events, with some species having limited capacity to tolerate consecutive heatwaves, possibly as the cost of acclimation is too great, with other species having the advantage of increased tolerance via stress memory, helping them survive future stress, at least in the short-term.
title Native Australian seedlings exhibit novel strategies to acclimate to repeated heatwave events.
topic Acclimatization
Seedlings
Hot Temperature
Australia
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40372513/