Contolini, Gina M; Kroeker, Kristy J; Palkovacs, Eric P (2020): Seawater carbonate chemistry and Nucella behavior [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926403
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Abstract:
Local adaptation can cause predator populations to vary in traits and their effects on prey, but few studies have tested whether divergent predator populations respond differently to acute environmental stressors. We tested how Nucella dogwhelks from 3 populations with natural exposure to distinct environmental regimes in the California Current System altered consumption of mussel prey (Mytilus californianus) in ambient (pH 8.0, 429 µatm partial pressure of CO2 [pCO2]) and acidified (pH 7.6, 1032 µatm pCO2) seawater. Overall, experimental acidification increased the variation in consumption time observed among populations. We found reduced consumption time for the population that experienced more frequent exposure to low pH conditions in nature but not for populations with less prior exposure. Exposure to acidification also altered the individual components of consumption time—search time and handling time—depending on source population. These results indicate that impaired predator performance is not a universal response to acidification, that predation responses to acute acidification can be population specific, and that individual population responses may relate to prior exposure. Our study highlights how population-specific responses to climate change can lead to differences in ecological effects that may restructure prey communities at local scales.
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Contolini, Gina M; Kroeker, Kristy J; Palkovacs, Eric P (2020): Predator populations differ in their foraging responses to acute seawater acidification. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 646, 69-78, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13406
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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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Median Latitude: 35.930000 * Median Longitude: -121.483333 * South-bound Latitude: 34.720000 * West-bound Longitude: -121.930000 * North-bound Latitude: 36.620000 * East-bound Longitude: -120.610000
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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 2020-12-25.
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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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258 data points