TY - DATA ID - baumann2011sccl T1 - Seawater carbonate chemistry, length and survival of Inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, during experiments, 2012 AU - Baumann, Hannes AU - Talmage, Stephanie C AU - Gobler, Christopher J PY - 2011 T2 - Supplement to: Baumann, H et al. (2012): Reduced early life growth and survival in a fish in direct response to increased carbon dioxide. Nature Climate Change, 2, 38-41, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1291 PB - PANGAEA DO - 10.1594/PANGAEA.773850 UR - https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.773850 N2 - Absorption of anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the world's oceans is causing mankind's 'other CO2 problem', ocean acidification. Although this process will challenge marine organisms that synthesize calcareous exoskeletons or shells, it is unclear how it will affect internally calcifying organisms, such as marine fish. Adult fish tolerate short-term exposures to CO2 levels that exceed those predicted for the next 300 years (~2,000 ppm), but potential effects of increased CO2 on growth and survival during the early life stages of fish remain poorly understood. Here we show that the exposure of early life stages of a common estuarine fish (Menidia beryllina) to CO2 concentrations expected in the world's oceans later this century caused severely reduced survival and growth rates. When compared with present-day CO2 levels (~400 ppm), exposure of M. beryllina embryos to ~1,000 ppm until one week post-hatch reduced average survival and length by 74% and 18%, respectively. The egg stage was significantly more vulnerable to high CO2-induced mortality than the post-hatch larval stage. These findings challenge the belief that ocean acidification will not affect fish populations, because even small changes in early life survival can generate large fluctuations in adult-fish abundance. KW - Animalia KW - Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L) KW - Chordata KW - Coast and continental shelf KW - Growth/Morphology KW - Laboratory experiment KW - Menidia beryllina KW - Mortality/Survival KW - Nekton KW - North Atlantic KW - Pelagos KW - Single species KW - Temperate ER -