Westfield, Isaac T; Gunnell, John; Rasher, D B; Williams, Branwen; Ries, Justin B (2022): Seawater carbonate chemistry and net calcification rates of cold-water coralline algae Clathromorphum compactum and Clathromorphum nereostratum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946236
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Abstract:
Ocean acidification and warming are expected to disproportionately affect high-latitude calcifying species, such as crustose coralline algae. Clathromorphum nereostratum and Clathromorphum compactum are the primary builders of carbonate-hardgrounds in the Aleutians Islands of Alaska and North Atlantic shelf, respectively, providing habitat and settlement substrates for a large number of species. We exposed wild-collected specimens to 12 pCO2/T treatments (344–3322 μatm; 6.38–12.40°C) for 4 months in a factorially crossed, replicated laboratory experiment. Impacts of pCO2/T on algal calcification were quantified from linear extension and buoyant weight. Here we show that, despite belonging to the same genus, C. nereostratum exhibited greater sensitivity to thermal stress, while C. compactum exhibited greater sensitivity to pH stress. Furthermore, multivariate models of algal calcification derived from the experiment indicate that both C. nereostratum and C. compactum will commence net dissolution as early as 2120 and 2200 AD, respectively. Our results therefore indicate that near-term climate change may lead to substantial degradation of these species and loss of the critical hardground habitats that they form.
Keyword(s):
Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Clathromorphum compactum; Clathromorphum nereostratum; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2); Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Macroalgae; North Atlantic; North Pacific; Plantae; Rhodophyta; Single species; Temperate; Temperature
Supplement to:
Westfield, Isaac T; Gunnell, John; Rasher, D B; Williams, Branwen; Ries, Justin B (2022): Cessation of Hardground Accretion by the Cold‐Water Coralline Algae Clathromorphum Compactum and Clathromorphum Nereostratum Predicted Within Two Centuries. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009942
Original version:
Westfield, Isaac T; Ries, Justin B; Williams, Branwen; Rasher, D B (2022): Clathromorphum compactum and C. nereostratum calcification experiment data involving multiple temperatures and pCO2 levels (CorallineAlgaePaleo-pH) [dataset]. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO), https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.871633.1
Further details:
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
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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 2022-07-12.
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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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