Structural and functional dynamics of coralline algal systems under warming scenarios: Insights into vulnerability, and resilience

IF 1.9 4区生物学 Q2 MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Aquatic Botany Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI:10.1016/j.aquabot.2024.103851

Andrea Bautista-García , Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo , Teresa Pi-Puig , Fabio Favoretto , Martín Merino-Ibarra , Javier A. Ceja-Navarro , Silvia Espinosa-Matías , Javier Tadeo León , Anidia Blanco-Jarvio

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Abstract

Globally, climate change affects reef ecosystems, causing community reconfigurations and ecological impacts. Coralline rhodophyta are one of the reef groups most vulnerable to synergistic warmer temperatures, and ocean acidification. Yet, mineralogic, microstructural, and chemical studies of their thalli are necessary to understand their vulnerability and resilience. Here, we studied mineralogy, microstructure, and chemistry of adjacent coralline rhodophyta systems in La Paz Bay: Neogoniolithon trichotomum-dominated tidal pools, and rhodoliths from a shallow rhodolith bed at San Lorenzo channel. These systems depicted mineral diversity, including different phases of high-magnesium calcites in rhodoliths. The carbonates in N. trichotomum included Mg-calcite, aragonite, ankerite, and Fe-carbonates. Compositional X-ray maps of calcium and magnesium in rhodoliths reproduce very well the concentric growth band-structure. In a complementary way, the bands richest in calcium are the poorest in magnesium, and vice versa. They are most likely related to the high-magnesium phases detected by bulk XRD-Rietveld, as indicated by their similar EPMA-WDS Mg:Ca ratios. Chemical imaging at the microscale revealed iron was distributed in the primary mineral structure, in contrast with detritic elements, such as Al and Si, located in the algal surface (perithallus). Because algal elemental content is sensitive to environmental conditions, La Paz Bay coralline rhodophyta systems emerge as interesting models to monitor high-magnesium carbonate, in a scenario of tropicalization.

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Aquatic Botany 生物-海洋与淡水生物学

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3.80

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5.60%

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6 months

期刊介绍： Aquatic Botany offers a platform for papers relevant to a broad international readership on fundamental and applied aspects of marine and freshwater macroscopic plants in a context of ecology or environmental biology. This includes molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of macroscopic aquatic plants as well as the classification, structure, function, dynamics and ecological interactions in plant-dominated aquatic communities and ecosystems. It is an outlet for papers dealing with research on the consequences of disturbance and stressors (e.g. environmental fluctuations and climate change, pollution, grazing and pathogens), use and management of aquatic plants (plant production and decomposition, commercial harvest, plant control) and the conservation of aquatic plant communities (breeding, transplantation and restoration). Specialized publications on certain rare taxa or papers on aquatic macroscopic plants from under-represented regions in the world can also find their place, subject to editor evaluation. Studies on fungi or microalgae will remain outside the scope of Aquatic Botany.