D'Amario, Barbara; Pérez-Mejías, Carlos; Grelaud, Michaël; Paraskevi, Pitta; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Ziveri, Patrizia (2020): Seawater carbonate chemistry and coccolithophore abundances and CaCO3 concentrations during the 2013 MedSeA mesocosm experiment [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931628
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Abstract:
Mesocosm experiments have been fundamental to investigate the effects of elevated CO2 and ocean acidification (OA) on planktic communities. However, few of these experiments have been conducted using naturally nutrient-limited waters and/or considering the combined effects of OA and ocean warming (OW). Coccolithophores are a group of calcifying phytoplankton that can reach high abundances in the Mediterranean Sea, and whose responses to OA are modulated by temperature and nutrients. We present the results of the first land-based mesocosm experiment testing the effects of combined OA and OW on an oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean coccolithophore community. Coccolithophore cell abundance drastically decreased under OW and combined OA and OW (greenhouse, GH) conditions. Emiliania huxleyi calcite mass decreased consistently only in the GH treatment; moreover, anomalous calcifications (i.e. coccolith malformations) were particularly common in the perturbed treatments, especially under OA. Overall, these data suggest that the projected increase in sea surface temperatures, including marine heatwaves, will cause rapid changes in Eastern Mediterranean coccolithophore communities, and that these effects will be exacerbated by OA.
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D'Amario, Barbara; Pérez-Mejías, Carlos; Grelaud, Michaël; Paraskevi, Pitta; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Ziveri, Patrizia (2020): Coccolithophore community response to ocean acidification and warming in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: results from a mesocosm experiment. Scientific Reports, 10, 12637, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69519-5
Original version:
Pitta, Paraskevi; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Frangoulis, Constantin; Ziveri, Patrizia (2014): Land based mesocosm experiment studying the simultaneous impact of warming and acidification on the planktonic food web of the Eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic Center of Marine Research, Institut of Oceanography, Greece, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836005
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Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James (2021): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.2.16. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seacarb/index.html
Ziveri, Patrizia; D'Amario, Barbara; Pérez-Mejías, Carlos; Grelaud, Michaël; Pitta, Paraskevi; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Paraskevi, Pitta: Coccolithophore abundances and CaCO3 concentrations during the 2013 MedSeA mesocosm experiment. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.920843
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Latitude: 35.330750 * Longitude: 25.281670
Date/Time Start: 2013-09-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-09-12T00:00:00
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Crete-mesocosms * Latitude: 35.330750 * Longitude: 25.281670 * Date/Time Start: 2013-08-26T10:10:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-09-14T18:05:00 * Location: Sea of Crete * Method/Device: Mesocosm experiment (MESO)
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2021) 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 2021-05-11.
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