Citation:

srep04189

Name: Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment
Published: 2014-09-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; CO2 vent; Coast and continental shelf; Dendropoma petraeum; Field experiment; Growth/Morphology; Mediterranean Sea; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; Neogoniolithon brassica-florida; Reproduction; Single species; Temperate

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Abstract:

Vermetids form reefs in sub-tropical and warm-temperate waters that protect coasts from erosion, regulate sediment transport and accumulation, serve as carbon sinks and provide habitat for other species. The gastropods that form these reefs brood encapsulated larvae; they are threatened by rapid environmental changes since their ability to disperse is very limited. We used transplant experiments along a natural CO2 gradient to assess ocean acidification effects on the reef-building gastropod Dendropoma petraeum. We found that although D. petraeum were able to reproduce and brood at elevated levels of CO2, recruitment success was adversely affected. Long-term exposure to acidified conditions predicted for the year 2100 and beyond caused shell dissolution and a significant increase in shell Mg content. Unless CO2 emissions are reduced and conservation measures taken, our results suggest these reefs are in danger of extinction within this century, with significant ecological and socioeconomic ramifications for coastal systems.

Keyword(s):

Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; CO2 vent; Coast and continental shelf; Dendropoma petraeum; Field experiment; Growth/Morphology; Mediterranean Sea; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; Neogoniolithon brassica-florida; Reproduction; Single species; Temperate

Further details:

Lavigne, Héloïse; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre (2014): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.0. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb

Project(s):

Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 38.392767 * Median Longitude: 14.873011 * South-bound Latitude: 38.205680 * West-bound Longitude: 14.258170 * North-bound Latitude: 38.420800 * East-bound Longitude: 14.964220

Date/Time Start: 2010-11-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2011-11-01T00:00:00

Event(s):

NW_Sicily * Latitude: 38.377138 * Longitude: 14.821536 * Date/Time Start: 2010-11-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2011-11-01T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Experiment (EXP)

Comment:

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne et al, 2014) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation is 2014-09-16.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	LATITUDE	Latitude				Geocode
2	LONGITUDE	Longitude				Geocode
3	Species	Species		Milazzo, Marco
4	Figure	Fig		Milazzo, Marco
5	Incubation duration	Inc dur	months	Milazzo, Marco		exposure
6	Site	Site		Milazzo, Marco
7	Replicate	Repl		Milazzo, Marco
8	Recruitment	Recruitment	#/cm²	Milazzo, Marco		living
9	Survival	Survival	%	Milazzo, Marco
10	Abundance per area	Abund a	#/m²	Milazzo, Marco		adults
11	Recruitment	Recruitment	#/cm²	Milazzo, Marco
12	Coverage	Cov	%	Milazzo, Marco
13	Magnesium/Calcium ratio	Mg/Ca	mmol/mol	Milazzo, Marco
14	Strontium/Calcium ratio	Sr/Ca	mmol/mol	Milazzo, Marco
15	Salinity	Sal		Milazzo, Marco
16	Salinity, standard error	Sal std e	±	Milazzo, Marco
17	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Milazzo, Marco
18	Temperature, water, standard error	T std e	±	Milazzo, Marco
19	pH	pH		Milazzo, Marco	Potentiometric	NBS scale
20	pH, standard error	pH std e	±	Milazzo, Marco	Potentiometric	NBS scale
21	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Milazzo, Marco	Calculated using CO2SYS
22	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air), standard error	pCO2water_SST_wet std e	±	Milazzo, Marco	Calculated using CO2SYS
23	Alkalinity, total	AT	µmol/kg	Milazzo, Marco	Potentiometric titration
24	Alkalinity, total, standard error	AT std e	±	Milazzo, Marco	Potentiometric titration
25	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Milazzo, Marco	Calculated using CO2SYS
26	Aragonite saturation state, standard error	Omega Arg std e	±	Milazzo, Marco	Calculated using CO2SYS
27	Carbonate system computation flag	CSC flag		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
28	pH	pH		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)	total scale
29	Carbon dioxide	CO2	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
30	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
31	Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	fCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
32	Bicarbonate ion	[HCO3]-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
33	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
34	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
35	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
36	Calcite saturation state	Omega Cal		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

2248 data points

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