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Advances in Predicting the Impacts of Global Warming on the Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Mediterranean Sea

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Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis have been used as model bivalves to study the impacts of global warming on their physiological performance in Themaikos Gulf, North Greece. The studies have been conducted under laboratory and field conditions for more than 6 years and focused on the biochemical, metabolic, physiological and energetic responses of M. galloprovincialis to increases in the ambient temperature. Here we summarize the findings concerning the responses of mussels to environmental temperature, present an integrated model of their physiological performance during thermal stress and discuss these findings in the light of the predicted temperature changes in the Thermaikos Gulf from the regional climate trends and the mean global temperature projections for the period 1990–2100 based on IS92 emission scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Our findings indicate that mussels in Themaikos Gulf currently face the temperatures close to their upper thermal limits, especially during the summer, and thus are likely vulnerably to any further increase in the temperature such as expected during the global warming.

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    Basile Michaelidis

  2. Integrative Ökophysiologie, Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Postfach 120161, D-27515, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Hans-O. Pörtner

  3. Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223-0001, USA

    Inna Sokolova

  4. Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences and Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407-0401, USA

    Lars Tomanek

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Michaelidis, B., Pörtner, HO., Sokolova, I., Tomanek, L. (2014). Advances in Predicting the Impacts of Global Warming on the Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Goffredo, S., Dubinsky, Z. (eds) The Mediterranean Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_18

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