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MARINE BIODIVERSITY
卷 45, 期 3, 页码 505-535出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-015-0359-z
关键词
Meiofauna; Climate change; Anthropogenic impacts; Biomonitoring; Natural observations and experimental studies
资金
- France laboratory cluster (Laboratoire d'Excellence) LabexMER [ANR-10-LABX-19]
- French Research Institute for the exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)
- Institut Carnot
- Total Foundation
- Oceanopolis aquarium
- Zone Atelier Brest Iroise
- Finistere Departmental Council
- University of Western Brittany
- Brest Metropole Oceane
- Brittany Regional Council
- European Institute for Marine Studies
- bank CASDEN Banque Populaire: Banque de l'Education, Recherche et Culture
- Banque Populaire de l'Ouest
- platform PERISCOPE and Grenier Photo
- LabexMER [ANR-10-LABX-19]
- French government under the program Investissements d'Avenir
- Brittany Regional Council (SAD programme)
- project Deep-sea hYdrothermal Vent nematodes as potential source of new Antibiotics (DYVA)
- IFREMER
- NERC [noc010009] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [noc010009] Funding Source: researchfish
Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global changes. From coastal to deep-sea ecosystems, ecologists are exploring new areas of research to find model organisms that help predict the future of life on our planet. Among the different categories of organisms, meiofauna offer several advantages for the study of marine benthic ecosystems. This paper reviews the advances in the study of meiofauna with regard to climate change and anthropogenic impacts. Four taxonomic groups are valuable for predicting global changes: foraminifers (especially calcareous forms), nematodes, copepods and ostracods. Environmental variables are fundamental in the interpretation of meiofaunal patterns and multistressor experiments are more informative than single stressor ones, revealing complex ecological and biological interactions. Global change has a general negative effect on meiofauna, with important consequences on benthic food webs. However, some meiofaunal species can be favoured by the extreme conditions induced by global change, as they can exhibit remarkable physiological adaptations. This review highlights the need to incorporate studies on taxonomy, genetics and function of meiofaunal taxa into global change impact research.
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