Effects of warming on recruitment and marine benthic community development in Antarctica. Heated Panels

Heated settlement panels were used to evaluate effects of in situ elevated temperature on marine benthic recruitment and community development in Antarctica over an 18 month period. The water in a thin layer above the panels was either unheated (controls) or set to +1°C or +2°C. After 18 months the transcriptomic response to temperature was evalauated via RNA-Seq for one of the main colonisers, the spirorbid worm Protolaeospira stalagmia.