{"id":6032,"date":"2020-09-16T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:30:51","slug":"epiphytic-benthic-foraminiferal-preferences-for-macroalgal-habitats-implications-for-coastal-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/epiphytic-benthic-foraminiferal-preferences-for-macroalgal-habitats-implications-for-coastal-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphytic benthic foraminiferal preferences for macroalgal habitats: Implications for coastal warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors:<\/strong> Sneha Manda, Danna Titelboim, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda<\/strong><\/a>, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Barak Herut and Sigal Abramovich<\/p>\n

Journal:<\/strong> \u00a0Marine Environmental Research<\/p>\n

DOI:<\/strong> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marenvres.2020.105084<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

Considering the thermal limits of coastal macroalgae habitats in the South-Eastern Mediterranean, it is important to study the response of the associated meiofauna to better understand the expected feedback of ecosystems to future warming. In this study, we compared benthic foraminiferal assemblages from two common macroalgal habitats, Turf and Coralline algae, based on ecological monitoring of a thermally polluted station representing near future warming, and an undisturbed environment.<\/p>\n

None of the common local species is confined to a specific algal habitat. This implies that their existence is not threatened by the disappearance of the Coralline algae. However, most likely their community structure will be impacted with coastal warming. Species that are more affiliated with Coralline algae are highly thermally tolerant, thus their proliferation might be reduced with warming. Specifically, the negative response of Coralline algae to warming may limit the contribution of invasive species such as Pararotalia calcariformata.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 1. The study area. Top left: location map of the Eastern Mediterranean, red square indicating the studied area. Bottom left: an overview of rock flats in Nachsholim. Middle: the Israeli coastline with the two studied stations (red stars) in respect to the temperature anomaly created by the power plant (black star). Right: the two types of the studied macroalgal habitat: Turf (T) and Coralline algae (C) alongside each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Fig. 3. (A) Relative abundances in each month throughout the sampling period demonstrating seasonal patterns, empty circles represent complete absence (0% abundance). (B) Data shown in boxplots clustering together the relative abundances from all sampling months to demonstrate the differences between the algal habitat and stations. Letters represent the result of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Tests and show differences between sample types. (C) Rose Bengal stained specimens of the foraminiferal groups examined in this study; scale bar is 200 \u03bcm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authors: Sneha Manda, Danna Titelboim, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Barak Herut and Sigal Abramovich Journal: \u00a0Marine Environmental Research DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marenvres.2020.105084 \u00a0Abstract Considering the thermal limits of coastal macroalgae habitats in the South-Eastern Mediterranean, it is important to study the response of the associated meiofauna to better understand the expected feedback of ecosystems to future warming. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-article"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SARIT_Fig.-3-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}