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Impact of diurnal temperature fluctuations on larval settlement and growth of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis
Lei Jiang
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Tropical Marine Biological Research Station in Hainan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China
                                        
                                    
                                            University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
                                        
                                    You-Fang Sun
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Tropical Marine Biological Research Station in Hainan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China
                                        
                                    
                                            University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
                                        
                                    Yu-Yang Zhang
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    Guo-Wei Zhou
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Tropical Marine Biological Research Station in Hainan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China
                                        
                                    Xiu-Bao Li
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    Laurence J. McCook
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    
                                            ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
                                        
                                    Jian-Sheng Lian
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    Xin-Ming Lei
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    Sheng Liu
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    Lin Cai
                                            Shenzhen Research Institute and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong SAR, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Shenzhen Research Institute and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong SAR, China
                                        
                                    Hui Huang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
                                            
                                    
                                            Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Tropical Marine Biological Research Station in Hainan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China
                                        
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 - Ocean acidification alters the thermal performance curves of brooded larvae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis L. Jiang et al. 10.1007/s00338-021-02161-3
 - Ecological and environmental predictors of juvenile coral density across the central and western Pacific C. Couch et al. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1192102
 - Symbiodiniaceae algal symbionts of Pocillopora damicornis larvae provide more carbon to their coral host under elevated levels of acidification and temperature Y. Sun et al. 10.1038/s42003-024-07203-4
 - Transcriptomic and Physiological Responses of the Tropical Reef Calcified Macroalga Amphiroa fragilissima to Elevated Temperature1 F. Yang et al. 10.1111/jpy.13158
 - Response mechanisms to ocean warming exposure in Effrenium voratum (Symbiodiniaceae) F. Yang et al. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114032
 - Promoting larval settlement of coral Pocillopora damicornis by calcium Q. Yang et al. 10.1007/s00338-021-02216-5
 - Impacts of elevated temperature and pCO2 on the brooded larvae of Pocillopora damicornis from Luhuitou Reef, China: evidence for local acclimatization L. Jiang et al. 10.1007/s00338-020-01894-x
 - Impacts of ocean warming on a reef-building coralline alga Amphiroa cf. fragilissima under high irradiance F. Yang et al. 10.3389/fmars.2022.922478
 - Larvae from three Caribbean corals settle differently in response to crustose coralline algae and their bacterial communities A. Giorgi et al. 10.3354/meps14739
 - Effects of Nitrate Enrichment on Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Fatty Acid Composition of Reef Coral Pocillopora damicornis Larvae C. Liu et al. 10.3389/fmars.2020.00531
 - Diurnal temperature variation exacerbates the effects of phenanthrene on Trochus pyramis Born in a warmer ocean J. Ren et al. 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.137068
 - Plasticity of symbiont acquisition in new recruits of the massive coral Platygyra daedalea under ocean warming and acidification L. Jiang et al. 10.1007/s00338-021-02151-5
 - What’s the key for success? Translocation, growth and thermal stress mitigation in the Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) C. Roveta et al. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1199048
 - Influence of the seagrass Thalassia hemprichii on coral reef mesocosms exposed to ocean acidification and experimentally elevated temperatures P. Liu et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134464
 - Comparison of physiological and transcriptome responses of corals to strong light and high temperature S. Jia et al. 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116143
 - Frequency of Temperature Fluctuations Subtly Impacts the Life Histories of a Tropical Snail H. Arlauskas et al. 10.1086/720129
 - Reactions of juvenile coral to three years of consecutive thermal stress S. Hazraty-Kari et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161227
 - Night-Time Temperature Reprieves Enhance the Thermal Tolerance of a Symbiotic Cnidarian S. Klein et al. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00453
 - How will the key marine calcifier Emiliania huxleyi respond to a warmer and more thermally variable ocean? X. Wang et al. 10.5194/bg-16-4393-2019
 - Responses of Symbiodiniaceae Shuffling and Microbial Community Assembly in Thermally Stressed Acropora hyacinthus W. Zhu et al. 10.3389/fmicb.2022.832081
 - Interactive effects of ocean acidification, ocean warming, and diurnal temperature cycling on antioxidant responses and energy budgets in two sea urchins Strongylocentrotus intermedius and Tripneustes gratilla from different latitudes T. Zhang et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153780
 - High Coral Recruitment Despite Coralline Algal Loss Under Extreme Environmental Conditions C. Tanvet et al. 10.3389/fmars.2022.837877
 - Day-night cycle as a key environmental factor affecting coral-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis S. Gong et al. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109890
 
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                    The negative effects of elevated temperature (31 °C) on larval settlement of P. damicornis was greatly tempered by diurnal temperature fluctuations, whilst diel oscillations in temperature reduced the heat stress on photo-physiology of coral recruits. Although elevated temperature greatly stimulated the growth of recruits, the daytime encounters with the maximum temperature of 33 °C in the fluctuating treatment elicited a notable reduction in calcification.
                    The negative effects of elevated temperature (31 °C) on larval settlement of P. damicornis was...
                    
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