E11A:
Impacts of Multiple Stressors in Coastal Ecosystems on Organism Health I


Session ID#: 36817

Session Description:
Organisms inhabiting coastal ecosystems are subject to a myriad of natural and anthropogenic stressors, such as variations in temperature and salinity, chemicals present in run-off or effluents, and the increased presence of invasive species. These coupled stressors can be additive, synergistic, or antagonistic at the individual and population levels. Organism-level responses are thus difficult to predict using traditional experimental approaches designed to evaluate single stressor variables. For example, major abiotic stressors such as hypoxia can enhance the effects of pollutant exposure. Understanding the interactions that occur between abiotic parameters, anthropogenic stressors, and responses at different levels of biological organization is critical for physiologists, ecologists, and toxicologists to project species resilience in the Anthropocene. Presentations addressing these challenges in marine and estuarine organisms across taxa are welcome. Studies can address responses at the molecular, organismal, or population scale in vertebrates or invertebrates. Examples of endpoints range from changes in growth or reproductive health to behavior and biochemical responses such as protein levels or gene expression. Pollutants or other environmental stressors should be considered in the context of conditions induced by global climate change, such as CO2-acidification, hypoxia, increased temperature, varied salinity, or species interactions due to range shifts or invasive species.
Primary Chair:  Susanne Marie Brander, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Richard Connon1, Nann Fangue2 and Anne Todgham2, (1)University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, Davis, CA, United States(2)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Moderators:  Susanne Marie Brander1, Richard Connon2, Nann Fangue3 and Anne Todgham3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States(2)University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, Davis, CA, United States(3)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Susanne Marie Brander, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • F - Fisheries
  • OC - Ocean Change: Acidification and Hypoxia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Exploring Disease Dynamics in the Staghorn Coral, Acropora cervicornis: Genotypic Response to Pathogen Transmission Techniques (313165)
Megan Elizabeth Bock, Nova Southeastern University, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Dania Beach, FL, United States and Nicole D Fogarty, Nova Southeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Dania Beach, FL, United States
Interactive Effects of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Warming on Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Early Life Stages (313455)
Cristina Villalobos, Western Washington University, Environmental Science, Bellingham, WA, United States, Brooke Arlite Love, Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, Bellingham, WA, United States and M. Brady Olson, Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, Anacortes, WA, United States
Combined Effects of Increased Temperature and Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants on Sex Determination, Survival, and Development Across Generations (314446)
Bethany Michele DeCourten, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Richard Connon, University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, Davis, CA, United States and Susanne Marie Brander, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Effects of Temperature and Bifenthrin on the Endocrinology of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawystscha) (314690)
Marissa Sarah Giroux1, Danny Luu2 and Daniel Schlenk2, (1)University of California Riverside, Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
Persistence in a Stressful Environment: Physiological Responses of Cellana toreuma to Heat Stress and Variability in Food Supply (315968)
Karen A Villarta, University of the Philippines Visayas, Division of Biological Sciences, Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines and Gray A Williams, University of Hong Kong, The Swire Institute of Marine Science and the School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, China
Interactive Effects of High CO2 and Temperature on the Physiology, Behavior and Development of American Lobster Larvae: Comparing Subpopulations across New England's Steep Thermal Gradient (319069)
Maura Niemisto, University of Maine, Wiscassett, ME, United States, Richard Wahle, University of Maine, ME, United States, Jesica Davis Waller, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences, United States, Spencer Greenwood, University of Prince Edward Island, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Charlottetown, PE, Canada and David Fields, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Tolerance to Changing Salinity in an Estuarine Dinoflagellate Species Creates Opportunities for Algal Blooms in Dynamic Coastal Ecosystems (326104)
Beth A Stauffer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Biology, Lafayette, LA, United States and Gina M Woods, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Biology, Lafayette, LA, United States

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