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The most immediate organismal response to environmental change is acclimatization through plastic changes in physiology and behavior. In terms of symbiotic interactions, the effects of climate change can result in increased reliance on partners, or the complete failure of the interaction leading to symbiont replacements or extinction of one or both partners. The specific goal of Theme I seeks to develop an integrated understanding—from genotype to phenotype—of the immediate impacts of climate change on each partner of the symbiosis. We aim to compare the mechanisms that govern these responses and outcomes across the closed-open-complex symbiosis spectrum.
The most immediate organismal response to environmental change is acclimatization through plastic changes in physiology and behavior.
The specific goal of Theme II is to extend the results of Theme I’s focus on the immediate impact of climate change on fitness and acclimatization to understand how our model systems will adapt and evolve to new environmental conditions over long-term exposure.
The goal of Theme III is to create a generalizable framework that combines short-term acclimatization (Theme I) and long-term adaptability data and models (Theme II) to predict the effect of climate change across the closed-open-complex symbiosis spectrum for all species.