Citation:

meps11956

Name: Seawater carbonate chemistry, physiological performance of Semibalanus balanoides and Nucella lapillus, and their predator-prey dynamics.
Published: 2017-11-21
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: Animalia; Arthropoda; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; Nucella lapillus; Respiration; Semibalanus balanoides; Species interaction; Temperate; Temperature

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Abstract:

While there is increasing evidence for the impacts of climate change at the individual level, much less is known about how species' likely idiosyncratic responses may alter ecological interactions. Here, we demonstrate that ocean acidification and warming not only directly alter species' (individual) physiological performance, but also their predator-prey dynamics. Our results demonstrate that tissue production (used as a proxy for prey quality) in the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides was reduced under scenarios of future climate change, and hence their ability to support energy acquisition for dogwhelk Nucella lapillus through food provision was diminished. However, rather than increasing their feeding rates as a compensatory mechanism, consumption rates of N. lapillus were reduced to the point that they exhibited starvation (a loss of somatic tissue), despite prey resources remaining abundant. The resilience of any marine organism to stressors is fundamentally linked to their ability to obtain and assimilate energy. Therefore, our findings suggest that the cost of living under future climate change may surpass the energy intake from consumption rates, which is likely exacerbated through the bottom-up effects of reduced prey quality. If, as our results suggest, changes in trophic transfer of energy are more common in a warmer, high CO2 world, such alterations to the predator-prey dynamic may have negative consequences for the acquisition of energy in the predator and result in energetic trade-offs. Given the importance of predator-prey interactions in structuring marine communities, future climate change is likely to have major consequences for community composition and the structure and function of ecosystems.

Keyword(s):

Animalia; Arthropoda; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; Nucella lapillus; Respiration; Semibalanus balanoides; Species interaction; Temperate; Temperature

Further details:

Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Proye, Aurélien; Soetaert, Karline; Rae, James (2016): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb

Project(s):

Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)

Coverage:

Latitude: 52.799330 * Longitude: -4.092000

Event(s):

Borth_OA * Latitude: 52.799330 * Longitude: -4.092000 * Method/Device: Experiment (EXP)

Comment:

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) 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 by seacarb is 2017-11-21.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Type	Type		Harvey, Ben P		study
2	Species	Species		Harvey, Ben P
3	Registration number of species	Reg spec no		Harvey, Ben P
4	Uniform resource locator/link to reference	URL ref		Harvey, Ben P		WoRMS Aphia ID
5	Experiment duration	Exp duration	days	Harvey, Ben P
6	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Harvey, Ben P		treatment
7	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Harvey, Ben P		treatment
8	Replicate	Repl		Harvey, Ben P
9	Growth rate	µ	µm/day	Harvey, Ben P		rostro-carinal diameter (RCD) change
10	Tissue production	Tis prod	µg/day	Harvey, Ben P
11	Survival	Survival	%	Harvey, Ben P
12	Tissue production	Tis prod	mg/g/day	Harvey, Ben P		per ash free dry weight
13	Mass change	Mass chn	mg/g/day	Harvey, Ben P		shell, per ash free dry weight
14	Respiration rate, oxygen	Resp O2	µmol/g/h	Harvey, Ben P		per ash free dry weight
15	Feeding rate, number of prey per mass	Feed rate	#/g/day	Harvey, Ben P		per ash free dry weight
16	Feeding rate, energy per mass	Feed rate	J/g/day	Harvey, Ben P		per ash free dry weight
17	Ingestion efficiency	IR eff		Harvey, Ben P
18	pH	pH		Harvey, Ben P	Potentiometric	NBS scale
19	pH, standard deviation	pH std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Potentiometric	NBS scale
20	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Harvey, Ben P
21	Temperature, standard deviation	T std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P
22	Salinity	Sal		Harvey, Ben P
23	Salinity, standard deviation	Sal std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P
24	Alkalinity, total	AT	µmol/kg	Harvey, Ben P	Potentiometric titration
25	Alkalinity, total, standard deviation	AT std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Potentiometric titration
26	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
27	Carbon dioxide, partial pressure, standard deviation	pCO2 std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
28	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/kg	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
29	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation	DIC std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
30	Bicarbonate ion	[HCO3]-	µmol/kg	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
31	Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation	[HCO3]- std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
32	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/kg	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
33	Carbonate ion, standard deviation	[CO3]2- std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
34	Carbon dioxide	CO2	µmol/kg	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
35	Carbon dioxide, standard deviation	CO2 std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
36	Calcite saturation state	Omega Cal		Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
37	Calcite saturation state, standard deviation	Omega Cal std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
38	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
39	Aragonite saturation state, standard deviation	Omega Arg std dev	±	Harvey, Ben P	Calculated using CO2calc
40	Carbonate system computation flag	CSC flag		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
41	pH	pH		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)	total scale
42	Carbon dioxide	CO2	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
43	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)
44	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)
45	Bicarbonate ion	[HCO3]-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
46	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
47	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
48	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
49	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)

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2670 data points

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