FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Seasonal and latitudinal variation in seagrass mechanical traits across Europe: The influence of local nutrient status and morphometric plasticity BT AF SOISSONS, L. M. VAN KATWIJK, M. M. PERALTA, G. BRUN, F. G. CARDOSO, P. G. GRILO, T. F. ONDIVIELA, B. RECIO, M. VALLE, M. GARMENDIA, J. M. GANTHY, Florian AUBY, Isabelle RIGOUIN, Loic GODET, L. FOURNIER, J DESROY, Nicolas BARILLE, Laurent KADEL, P. ASMUS, R. HERMAN, P. M. J. BOUMA, T. J. AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:4;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:7;8:7;9:8,9;10:8;11:10;12:10;13:10;14:11;15:12;16:13;17:14;18:15;19:15;20:1,2,3;21:1,2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERAR;12:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERAR;13:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERAR;14:;15:;16:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;17:;18:;19:;20:;21:; C1 NIOZ Royal Netherlands Inst Sea Res, Dept Estuarine & Delta Syst EDS, Yerseke, Netherlands. Univ Utrecht, Yerseke, Netherlands. Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Inst Wetland & Water Res, Dept Environm Sci, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Univ Cadiz, Fac Ciencias Mar & Ambientales, Dept Biol, Area Ecol, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain. CIMAR Interdisciplinary Ctr Marine & Environm Res, Matosinhos, Portugal. Univ Lisbon, Fac Ciencias, MARE Marine & Environm Sci Ctr, Lab Maritimo Guia, Cascais, Portugal. Univ Cantabria, Environm Hydraul Inst IH Cantabria, Santander, Spain. AZTI, Div Marine Res, Pasaia, Spain. Univ Laica Eloy Alfaro Manabi, Fac Ciencias Mar, Ciudadela Univ, Manta, Ecuador. IFREMER, LER AR, Arcachon, France. Univ Nantes, CNRS, UMR 6554, LETG Nantes Geolittomer, Nantes 3, France. Stn Biol Marine MNHN, CNRS, UMR 7208 BOREA, Concarneau, France. IFREMER, Lab Environm & Ressources, Stn Dinard, Dinard, France. Univ Nantes, Fac Sci & Tech, Equipe Mer Mol Sante EA 2160, Nantes 3, France. Alfred Wegener Inst, Helmholtz Zentrum Polar & Meeresforsch, Wadden Sea Stn Sylt, List Auf Sylt, Germany. C2 INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS UNIV UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS UNIV RADBOUD NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS UNIV CADIZ, SPAIN CIIMAR, PORTUGAL UNIV LISBON, PORTUGAL UNIV CANTABRIA, SPAIN AZTI, SPAIN UNIV CIUDADELA, ECUADOR IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV NANTES, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV NANTES, FRANCE INST A WEGENER, GERMANY SI ARCACHON DINARD SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERAR PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 4.325 TC 17 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00392/50318/50995.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00392/50318/50996.pdf LA English DT Article AB Seagrasses are marine flowering plants distributed worldwide. They are however threatened, mostly due to the increase of human activities. Seagrasses have the capacity to adapt their morphological, physiological, and mechanical traits to their local conditions. Mechanical traits have been identified as a good tool to investigate a plant-species capacity to withstand physical forces or disturbances but are still sparsely studied in seagrasses. With this study, we aimed to assess how the mechanical traits of a broadly spread seagrass species vary along a latitudinal gradient in relation to its morphometric plasticity and nutrient status. We found that seagrasses acclimate their mechanical traits in relation to their physiological or morphological traits, both over the growing season and across a latitudinal range: leaves were weaker and thinner in northern areas, particularly at the end of the growing season. Besides the influence of the latitudinal gradient, leaf mechanical strength and stiffness were both strongly affected by their morphometric plasticity. Moreover, we showed that leaves mechanical traits change depending on their nutrient status: leaves were stronger and stiffer in oligotrophic conditions as compared to more eutrophic conditions. Thus, our results imply that, under eutrophication, leaves become weaker and thus more vulnerable to physical forces. This vulnerability is higher in the north at the end of the growing season. The latter is consistent with the more ephemeral character of northern seagrass meadows, in contrast to the more evergreen southern meadows. PY 2018 PD JAN SO Limnology And Oceanography SN 0024-3590 PU Wiley VL 63 IS 1 UT 000423029300003 BP 37 EP 46 DI 10.1002/lno.10611 ID 50318 ER EF