Habitat-Forming Species: Buffers or Amplifiers for Mutualistic Organisms in Response to Climate Change?
Junmei Qu
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Zhixin Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Zhixin Zhang ([email protected])
Geng Qin ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorShaobo Ma
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
South China Sea Ecological Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorYaqi Wang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorXiaoyu Tang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorJianping Yin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Geng Qin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Zhixin Zhang ([email protected])
Geng Qin ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Lin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorJunmei Qu
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Zhixin Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Zhixin Zhang ([email protected])
Geng Qin ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorShaobo Ma
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
South China Sea Ecological Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorYaqi Wang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorXiaoyu Tang
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorJianping Yin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Geng Qin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Zhixin Zhang ([email protected])
Geng Qin ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Lin
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Global Ocean and Climate Research Center, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorFunding: National Key Research and Development Program of China (2023YFC3108800). Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2023360). National Natural Science Foundation of China (42276126). Development Fund of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology. Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCSIO202203 and SCSIO202208). Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China (2023B1212060047).
ABSTRACT
Aim
Habitat-forming species play a critical role in coral reef ecosystems by creating complex physical structures for marine species. Driven by climate change, these habitat-forming species are undergoing considerable shifts in their geographical distribution, which might trigger cascading effects via protection mutualisms, leading to alterations in the relationships between species. We examined the role of habitat-forming species in regulating spatial distributions of their mutualistic protectors' influence.
Location
Global coastal ocean.
Methods
We used species distribution models to examine how suitable habitats for organisms that form mutualistic relationships with habitat-forming species respond to climate change, focusing on two representative macrosymbiotic relationships in coral reefs: Coral–coral crab and sea anemone–clownfish.
Results
The results revealed that corals are more sensitive to climate change than sea anemones, experiencing greater range contractions under projected future conditions. Consequently, the distribution ranges of both coral-mutualistic crabs and sea anemone-mutualistic clownfishes are expected to reduce even further when protection mutualisms are considered. Coral crabs are projected to undergo a more rapid range size loss than clownfishes.
Main Conclusion
These findings highlight the importance of incorporating interspecific interactions among habitat-forming species into predictions of potential shifts in the biogeographic distributions of mutualistic protectors under climate change.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Open Research
Data Availability Statement
The occurrences' records of corals and coral crabs are available in Zhang et al. (2024). The other distribution dates and R codes to produce the models are available from https://figshare.com/s/2a41c0d3a17a8da3834d. The predictor variables from the Bio-ORACLE version 3.0 database (https://bio-oracle.org).
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