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Type: Journal article
Title: Animal behaviour shapes the ecological effects of ocean acidification and warming: moving from individual to community-level responses
Author: Nagelkerken, I.
Munday, P.
Citation: Global Change Biology, 2016; 22(3):974-989
Publisher: Wiley
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1354-1013
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Ivan Nagelkerken and Philip L. Munday
Abstract: Biological communities are shaped by complex interactions between organisms and their environment as well as interactions with other species. Humans are rapidly changing the marine environment through increasing greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in ocean warming and acidification. The first response by animals to environmental change is predominantly through modification of their behaviour, which in turn affects species interactions and ecological processes. Yet, many climate change studies ignore animal behaviour. Furthermore, our current knowledge of how global change alters animal behaviour is mostly restricted to single species, life phases and stressors, leading to an incomplete view of how coinciding climate stressors can affect the ecological interactions that structure biological communities. Here, we first review studies on the effects of warming and acidification on the behaviour of marine animals. We demonstrate how pervasive the effects of global change are on a wide range of critical behaviours that determine the persistence of species and their success in ecological communities. We then evaluate several approaches to studying the ecological effects of warming and acidification, and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled, to better understand how global change will affect marine populations and communities through altered animal behaviours. Our review provides a synthesis of the far-reaching consequences that behavioural changes could have for marine ecosystems in a rapidly changing environment. Without considering the pervasive effects of climate change on animal behaviour we will limit our ability to forecast the impacts of ocean change and provide insights that can aid management strategies.
Keywords: adaptation; behavioural traits; CO₂ vents; community structure; global change; life stages; mesocosms; population dynamics; species interactions
Description: Version of Record online: 23 DEC 2015
Rights: © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13167
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT120100183
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13167
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