High temperature bleaching events can increase thermal tolerance of <i>Porites lutea</i> in the Weizhou Island

Meng Linqing; Huang Wen; Yang Enguang; Wang Yonggang; Xu Lijia; Yu Kefu

doi:10.12284/hyxb2022126

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Meng Linqing，Huang Wen，Yang Enguang, et al. High temperature bleaching events can increase thermal tolerance of Porites lutea in the Weizhou Island[J]. Haiyang Xuebao，2022, 44(8)：87–96 doi: 10.12284/hyxb2022126

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Meng Linqing，Huang Wen，Yang Enguang, et al. High temperature bleaching events can increase thermal tolerance of Porites lutea in the Weizhou Island[J]. Haiyang Xuebao，2022, 44(8)：87–96 doi: 10.12284/hyxb2022126

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High temperature bleaching events can increase thermal tolerance of Porites lutea in the Weizhou Island

doi: 10.12284/hyxb2022126

Meng Linqing^{1, 2, 3
,},
Huang Wen^{1, 2, 3
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,},
Yang Enguang^{1, 2, 3},
Wang Yonggang^{1, 2, 3},
Xu Lijia⁴,
Yu Kefu^{1, 2, 3}

1.
School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
2.
Guangxi Laboratory on the Study of Coral Reefs in the South China Sea, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
3.
Coral Reef Research Center of China, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
4.
South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510530, China

Received Date: 2021-11-10
Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-03

Available Online: 2022-08-15

Publish Date: 2022-08-15

Abstract

Abstract

In recent years, the rising of sea surface temperature caused by global warming resulted in frequently large-scale coral bleaching events, which have seriously damaged the health of coral reef ecosystems. In order to reveal the influence of bleaching events on the thermal tolerance of Porites lutea and further explore the physiological response of P. lutea in high temperature, comparative study was carried out on high-stress experiment on P. lutea before and after high temperature bleaching events at Weizhou Island, Guangxi in summer 2020. Coral’s physiological and biochemical indexes were also analyzed. The results showed that: (1) the response pattern of the two groups to high temperature stress was that the contraction of coral tentacles, the density of zooxanthellae, the maximum quantum efficiency of Photosystem II (Fv/Fm) and chlorophyll a content decreased significantly, antioxidant (superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione) and ammonium assimilase (glutamine synthase) activities (content) increased and then decreased; (2) the physiological indexes showed better performance and its antioxidant and ammonium assimilation enzyme kept high activity and sensitive response in the after high temperature bleaching events group. It means that the P. lutea in the Weizhou Island can improve its thermal tolerance by increasing the activities of antioxidant and ammonium assimilation enzyme after high temperature bleaching events which is one of the strategies to cope with global warming. This study also revealed the response pattern of Weizhou Island’s P. lutea to extreme high temperatures, providing theoretical support for coral reef protection and ecological restoration.
- Weizhou Island,
- bleaching events,
- Porites lutea,
- high temperature stress,
- global warming

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