Authors

Brian Helmuth, Northeastern University
Francis Choi, Northeastern University
Allison Matzelle, Northeastern University
Jessica Torossian, Northeastern University
Scott Morello, The Downeast Institute
K.A.S. Mislan, University of Washington
Lauren Yamane, University of California, Davis
Denise Strickland, University of South Carolina
P. Szathmary, University of South Carolina
Sarah Gilman, Claremont McKenna College
Alyson Tockstein, University of South Carolina
Thomas Hilbish, University of South Carolina
Michael Burrows, Scottish Association for Marine Science
Anne Marie Power, National University of Ireland, Galway
Elizabeth Gosling, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Nova Mieszkowska, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Christopher Harley, University of British Columbia
Michael Nishizaki, University of Washington
Emily Carrington, University of Washington
Bruce Menge, Oregon State University
Laura Petes, Oregon State University
Melissa Foley, Oregon State University
Angela Johnson, Oregon State University
Megan Poole, Oregon State University
Mae Noble, Oregon State University
Erin Richmond, Oregon State University
Matt Robart, Oregon State University
Jonathan Robinson, Oregon State University
Jerod Sapp, Oregon State University
Jackie Sones, University of California, Davis
Bernardo Broitman, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas
Mark Denny, Stanford University
Katharine Mach, Stanford University
Luke P. Miller, San Jose State UniversityFollow
Michael O'Donnell, Stanford University
Philip Ross, University of Waikato
Gretchen Hofmann, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mackenzie Zippay, University of California, Santa Barbara
Carol Blanchette, University of California, Santa Barbara
J. Macfarlan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Benjamin Ruttenberg, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Carlos Peña Mejía, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Christopher McQuaid, Rhodes University
Justin Lathlean, Rhodes University
Cristián Monaco, Rhodes University
Katy Nicastro, Rhodes University
Gerardo Zardi, Rhodes University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

Scientific Data

Volume

3

First Page

160087

DOI

10.1038/sdata.2016.87

Keywords

Climate-change impacts, Ecophysiology, Marine biology

Disciplines

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Marine Biology | Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology | Other Physiology

Abstract

At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures. We deployed biomimetic sensors that approximate the thermal characteristics of intertidal mussels at 71 sites worldwide, from 1998-present. Loggers recorded temperatures at 10–30 min intervals nearly continuously at multiple intertidal elevations. Comparisons against direct measurements of mussel tissue temperature indicated errors of ~2.0–2.5 °C, during daily fluctuations that often exceeded 15°–20 °C. Geographic patterns in thermal stress based on biomimetic logger measurements were generally far more complex than anticipated based only on ‘habitat-level’ measurements of air or sea surface temperature. This unique data set provides an opportunity to link physiological measurements with spatially- and temporally-explicit field observations of body temperature.

Comments

This article was originally published in Scientific Data, volume 3, 2016. It can be found at this link. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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