Gene‐to‐Population Level Responses to Multiple Stressors on the Rocky Shore
N towards values indicative of greater assimilation of sewage-derived material, while warming increased elemental C:N ratios, consistent with altered nutritional stress. Barnacle transcriptomic responses mirrored this dominance of pollution, broadly regulating gene expression linked to protein turnover, DNA repair and protein folding; combined warming and pollution further intensified proteostasis-related changes and produced predominantly reversal and antagonistic interaction types. Our results show that sewage pollution can overwhelm and reshape warming effects over time and across biological levels, linking group-level responses with parallel shifts in trophic biomarkers and gene regulation. Our scalable field approach provides a template for in situ marine multiple stressor experiments across wider spatiotemporal scales.
Authors
- Ramesh Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-2989)
- Michael Collins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2112-5294)
- Katie Driver (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-1238)
- James Orr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6531-5623)
- Manuela Truebano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2586-6524)
- Michelle Jackson
Institutions
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- University of Plymouth (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ecology and Evolution
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73368
- Primary Topic
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Challenger Society for Marine Science
- Natural England
- University of Oxford
- Crown Estate
- Natural Environment Research Council