Aguilera, Victor M; Vargas, Cristian A; Dam, Hans G (2020): Seawater carbonate chemistry and copepod traits and performance [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925337
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Abstract:
Linking pH/pCO2 natural variation to phenotypic traits and performance of foundational species provides essential information for assessing and predicting the impact of ocean acidification (OA) on marine ecosystems. Yet, evidence of such linkage for copepods, the most abundant metazoans in the oceans, remains scarce, particularly for naturally corrosive Eastern Boundary Upwelling systems (EBUs). This study assessed the relationship between pH levels and traits (body and egg size) and performance (ingestion rate (IR) and egg reproduction rate (EPR)) of the numerically dominant neritic copepod Acartia tonsa, in a year-round upwelling system of the northern (23° S) Humboldt EBUs. The study revealed decreases in chlorophyll (Chl) ingestion rate, egg production rate and egg size with decreasing pH as well as egg production efficiency, but the opposite for copepod body size. Further, ingestion rate increased hyperbolically with Chl, and saturated at 1 µg Chl/ L. Food resources categorized as high (H, >1 µg/L) and low (L, 7.89) and future (>400 µatm pCO2, pH < 7.89) were used to compare our observations to values globally employed to experimentally test copepod sensitivity to OA. A comparison (PERMANOVA) test with Chl/pH (2*2) design showed that partially overlapping OA levels expected for the year 2100 in other ocean regions, low-pH conditions in this system negatively impacted traits and performance associated with copepod fitness. However, interacting antagonistically with pH, food resource (Chl) maintained copepod production in spite of low pH levels. Thus, the deleterious effects of ocean acidification are modulated by resource availability in this system.
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Aguilera, Victor M; Vargas, Cristian A; Dam, Hans G (2020): Antagonistic interplay between pH and food resources affects copepod traits and performance in a year-round upwelling system. Scientific Reports, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56621-6
Original version:
Aguilera, Victor M (2020): Weekly monitoring of pH, food resources and copepod traits and performance in a year-round upwelling system, Antofagasta (23°S), during 2015. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911386
Further details:
Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James; Gentili, Bernard; Hagens, Mathilde; Hofmann, Andreas; Mueller, Jens-Daniel; Proye, Aurélien; Rae, James; Soetaert, Karline (2020): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.2.14. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=seacarb
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Latitude: -23.460136 * Longitude: -70.622217
Date/Time Start: 2015-05-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-09-30T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 15 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 15 m
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2020) 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 2020-11-30.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
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864 data points