Biology & Life Sciences

Slice of PLOS: Mesocosms and Climate Change

Published June 8, 2016 Curated Collections

Mesocosms recreate a natural environment in a small – often enclosed or semi-enclosed – system, where particular variables can be altered or held constant. Mesocosms can be used to investigate how warming temperatures will affect the fitness of specific species, how communities respond to warmer temperatures or to look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change. This Slice of PLOS highlights research on mesocosms and climate change from across the PLOS journals.

Image Credit: Gabriel Yvon-Durocher 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002324

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Slice of PLOS: Mesocosms and Climate Change

Slice of PLOS: Mesocosms and Climate Change

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002281

Biologue Slice of PLOS: Mesocosms and Climate Change
January 6, 2016 Lauren Richardson
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002323

PLOS Biology Mesocosms Reveal Ecological Surprises from Climate Change
December 17, 2015 Damien A. Fordham
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002281

PLOS Biology Live Fast, Die Young: Experimental Evidence of Population Extinction Risk due to Climate Change
October 26, 2015 Elvire Bestion, Aimeric Teyssier, Murielle Richard, Jean Clobert, Julien Cote
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002324

PLOS Biology Five Years of Experimental Warming Increases the Biodiversity and Productivity of Phytoplankton
December 17, 2015 Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Andrew P. Allen, Maria Cellamare, Matteo Dossena, Kevin J. Gaston, Maria Leitao, José M. Montoya, Daniel C. Reuman, Guy Woodward, Mark Trimmer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0143372

PLOS ONE Parental Effect of Long Acclimatization on Thermal Tolerance of Juvenile Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus
November 18, 2015 Qing-lin Wang, Shan-shan Yu, Yun-wei Dong
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10.1371/journal.pone.0136344

PLOS ONE Higher Trophic Levels Overwhelm Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning
August 20, 2015 Shannon L. Pelini, Audrey M. Maran, Angus R. Chen, Justine Kaseman, Thomas W. Crowther
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10.1371/journal.pone.0120837

PLOS ONE Management of Local Stressors Can Improve the Resilience of Marine Canopy Algae to Global Stressors
March 25, 2015 Elisabeth M. A. Strain, Jim van Belzen, Jeroen van Dalen, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Laura Airoldi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0119741

PLOS ONE Multivariate and Phylogenetic Analyses Assessing the Response of Bacterial Mat Communities from an Ancient Oligotrophic Aquatic Ecosystem to Different Scenarios of Long-Term Environmental Disturbance
March 17, 2015 Silvia Pajares, Valeria Souza, Luis E. Eguiarte