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.

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Ecology and Evolution
Published
2026-04-01
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73368
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Marine and coastal plant biology
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Gene‐to‐Population Level Responses to Multiple Stressors on the Rocky Shore

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Abstract

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.

Ecology and EvolutionVol. 16(4)
The University of Queensland (AU), University of Oxford (GB), University of Plymouth (GB)
Challenger Society for Marine Science, Natural England, University of Oxford, Crown Estate, Natural Environment Research Council
Clean water and sanitation
Openalex Percentile: Top 23%
Marine and coastal plant biology
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